Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kord (band) (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. JForget 23:41, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Kord (band)
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Previously deleted in 2007, this article should suffer the same fate today. True, point two of WP:BAND indicates that a band that had "a charted single or album on any national music chart" may be -- may be, not is -- notable, and I have no reason to doubt that a song by Kord did rank 79th on the Romanian charts for a week in 2005. However, the claim to notability is really quite thin, particularly if we look at the sourcing. The external links are an official site and, of course, a MySpace page, neither of which is very encouraging from the "independent of the subject" point of view of WP:GNG. Footnote 3, sourced to the official site, has the same problem. Links 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 are YouTube videos, which aside from violating WP:ELNEVER, can't actually be used to validate anything (published text is needed for that). Similarly, footnote 7 consists solely of eight photographs. Finally, footnotes 2, 6 and 11 are self-published sites. They are blogs, they are user-contributed, they have not gone through a peer-reviewing editorial process. Given the lack of "multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the musician or ensemble itself and reliable", I think the case for deletion is strong. Biruitorul Talk 20:24, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 21:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 21:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete G4, recreated and salt. ApprenticeFan  talk  contribs 22:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - easily a speedy. Wether B (talk) 14:10, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, as above, re-creation of deleted content, non-notable band. We've got a couple people asking for a keep, but they've only ever worked on this article (well, one has also worked on the article for another questionable band), and their arguments readily admit they're unverifiable.  — DragonHawk (talk|hist) 19:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Remove speedy deletion tag Kord (band) I think it has credible claim of significance (charting single) and more others notable and reliable sources, like one of the Kord members, Stefan Corbu, was a member in a band of a notable artist named Nicola. I've checked RT100 and they had a charted single in a national music, chart RT100, for more then one week in 2005. I've checked too about their appearence in a tv show and they had performed music for a network television show, not only one performance in a television show and many performances in tv shows KORD at TEO on Romantica (Romanian TV Channel), they had been the subject of a half hour or longer broadcast across a national radio  and TV network. I've noticed that the article has the speedy deletion tag. Maybe you'd like reconsider your speedy deletion tag and remove that tag, because the article it's notable. thanks a lot.Lukasandi (talk) 15:34, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Remove deletion tag for Kord (band) This article should not be deleted because it has at least 3 real reasons to stay up. This band is notable because it meets more than one criteria. See Notability (music). I checked some of the references and: - Kord (band) indeed had a charted single in a national music chart (see references no.1 & 2 from the article and the external links), and the song it was chartered for two weeks, not one, as Biruitorul said. - one of the members of Kord (band), Stefan Corbu, is a musician who has been a member of another notable musician, Nicola. - Kord (band) performed music in many television shows, as can be seen on Youtube, and i know that those videos can't actually be used to validate anything, but what can be more real, than when you see with your own eyes? - the references (notes) no.3 & 7 are not self-published sites, as Biruitorul said. The reference no.3 www.muzica.ro is one of the most important sites from Romania, about musicians. And the reference no.7 Radio Lynx is just a link from a website of a romanian radio, where Kord has been the subject of a half hour broadcast across a national radio. Rallyk (talk) 15:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete again and maybe salt. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:48, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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