Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mamiboys


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The result was   no consensus. Stifle (talk) 10:35, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Mamiboys

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Article about a band, which as written strikes a heavily promotional tone, and makes no particularly strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. Further, while on the surface the article looks extensively sourced, closer examination reveals that there are major problems with the referencing as well: (1) most of the sources are unreliable blogs or press releases rather than reliable source coverage; (2) sources 5 through 10 have nothing whatsoever to do with the band, but are sourcing facts about a film that they happened to contribute a song to; (3) sources 14 through 39 are refbombing a single fact; (4) sources 40 through 51 are another refbomb, consisting of 11 different reprints of the same article in 11 different unreliable sources. No prejudice against recreation in the future if a properly written and properly sourced article about the band can be created, but this version is a delete. Bearcat (talk) 02:41, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment Any idea if any of their CDs ever charted? Because if they have, that would be enough to establish notability. Also, they appear to have performed songs for some notable films. In the Anime and manga WikiProject, this is sometimes considered enough to establish notability, but I have no idea if this applies to other kinds of media (and obviously, the stuff they performed for aren't anime). Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 06:31, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment References have been edited accordingly to guidelines. Duplicate reprints have been removed. References are from Notable Press such as Straits Times, The Hindu, Times of India, AsiaOne etc. Only references to movies which talks about the Artist "Mamiboys" have been used as references.

According to WP:NMUSIC, A musician or ensemble (note that this includes a band, singer, rapper, orchestra, DJ, musical theatre group, instrumentalist, etc.) may be notable if it meets at least one of the following criteria:

The article meets the following guidelines :


 * Article has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself. This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, online versions of print media, and television documentaries. The Article "Mamiboys" has been a subject of multiple, published works such as South Indian Films (Thottu Paar, Bindaas, Orange). The music soundtrack of the movies has also been chartered as CDs worldwide. The Artist has also released a music album called "Dum Tea" and references has been provided by notable press too stating the release of the album. - Times of India has mentioned that the Artist Mamiboys have collaborated with south indian music producers such as Harris Jayaraj and Srikanth Deva which is a notable reference.


 * Artist has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition. (IMDB Credits which indicates "Mamiboys" as Music for the movie Roadside Ambanis which won the Best film awards for the Norway International Film Festival).

06:31, 29 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisheno (talk • contribs)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 12:34, 4 January 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 15:39, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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