Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giddy-up, helicopter!


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was DELETE. These "has >N links to arbitrary news sources" comments are weak. Sure, it has those. Do they establish encyclopedic notability, and if so, how? Do they demonstrate that the article meets the guidelines/policies, or is there are there reason(s) for making exceptions to them? The deleters, otoh, are firmly rooted in references to WP:MUSIC. -Splash - tk 22:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Giddy-up, helicopter!

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Contest prod so brought here for procedure. -  irides centi   (talk to me!)  09:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - I AfD'd this for procedure after a prod was deleted. I think it's borderline at this stage as to whether it meets WP:BAND - they do get 336 Ghits with a fair bit of press coverage. (Since nomination I've added a couple of references to the article to give it multiple non-trivial published sources.) Also, the original nominator (172.147.54.62) looks like it may be a single purpose sockpuppet as their (single day) edit history seems to consist entirely of prods, tagging & adding "uncategorised" to articles, whilst their original  notice has a whiff of bad faith about it. -   irides centi   (talk to me!)  10:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, as per the sources cited, but could definately do with a cleanup. No lead paragraph, needs to sort out capitalisation, that picture is somewhat invasive, and further categorisation would be nice, among other things J Milburn 12:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Seeing as it's his/her first full article, I've told the creator that if it gets kept I'll go through it and clean it up - but no point doing it if it only has four days to live. -  irides centi   (talk to me!)  14:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Strong delete: I am the one that originally prod'd the page because I felt, and still do, that it is a non notable band. The article may be drastically improve since it's initial posting but a good article on a non notable band isn't really the issue. The issue is really rather or not the band deserves a page on Wiki regardless of the quality of the article. And so far, nothing I have seen has shown that this band is "Wiki Worthy." 172.133.130.59 10:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 172.133.130.59, see the message I've left on my talk page re this (presumably no point leaving on yours if AOL is playing their old serverhopping game). -  irides centi   (talk to me!)  18:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: From the bottom part of the article: "CMJ music festival accepted them to play in New York but then took it back; they now want revenge and a solid summer tour." That is why I said get revenge on original prod.  But still, further proof this article is partly a  joke to them!  172.147.143.182 03:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 03:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Delete Regardless of anything else, they don't pass WP:MUSIC at the moment. No prejudice to recreation if/when they do.  Eliminator JR  Talk  11:47, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * =Keep. Multiple press sources. Ab e g92 contribs 16:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing WP:MUSIC for the moment. If they're signed to a notable label and get a couple of records out, then we'll talk, but right now, I don't feel they meet the guidelines. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, edging toward indie-level notability, but not there yet. --Dhartung | Talk 21:46, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.