Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moby Dick (band)


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Moby Dick (band)

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article makes no claim of notability for its subject. speedy declined Wuh  Wuz  Dat  16:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC) -- Scjessey (talk) 16:54, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I contested the speedy on the basis of the mention of the band in Ana Stanić's biography. decltype (talk) 16:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - despite mention in article of Ana Stanić (who appears to have a somewhat limited notability, arguably not enough), the band itself does not appear notable at all.
 * Keep - Moby Dick was one of most popular bands in Serbia during 90's and early 2000's. It's hard to find data on the Internet for this period of Serbian music as Internet wasn't widely used in Serbia before early 2000's. You can still however buy Moby Dick's albums from various sites specialized in bands from former Yugoslavia. As for notability, I'm not sure how someone who's not from this part of the world could judge if someone is/was a notable musician or not. Of course, if English Wikipedia is supposed to be for English/American/Australian... related articles, then this is another thing. But I believe English Wikipedia should contain articles about subjects from all around the world, as English is considered world language number one. Satellite779
 * Keep - No joke, noted in scholarly works by David Titus and other scholars. Bearian (talk) 20:20, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and see comment by Satellite779. Gosox5555 (talk) 20:44, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep reasons are 2005 Hungarian Metal Award (now in the article) and discography. --Ilion2 (talk) 06:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per discography. --Ilion2 (talk) 18:56, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment Ilion2, unfortunately, we're not referring to the same band, as Serbian pop-dance Moby Dick couldn't have won Hungarian Metal Awards as it's neither a heavy metal band, nor it's Hungarian. Maybe you could create a page for that band. Still, this doesn't reduce the notability of Serbian Moby Dick as extremely popular dance act in Serbia during 1990's. Satellite779
 * Thanks. To get around further problems I moved Moby Dick (band) to Moby Dick (Serbian band) and changed Moby Dick (band) to a disambiguation page. Should this AFD-page be moved too? --Ilion2 (talk) 14:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:27, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Added more data and references, extended info box. Satellite779 —Preceding undated comment added 08:51, 10 July 2009 (UTC).
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
 * 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.