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


 * 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   keep. Even disregarding throwaway !votes, strong consensus to keep. If someone strongly disagrees, feel free to revert the close. (non-admin closure) Regards, MacMedtalk stalk 23:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Periphery (band)
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Fails WP:MUSIC; a following on the internet produces a lot of ghits, which tends to obscure how thin the coverage really is. For our purposes a relatively successful myspace band. Discussed last year without consensus. - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 13:52, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

^^^ you suck —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.239.5 (talk) 19:04, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Cannot find reputable references to support notability. TangSing (talk) 19:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

They are featured in the current issue of Guitar World: see That's notable enough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.144.191 (talk) 20:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Nope. See WP:MUSIC g1 ("Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable"). - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 21:59, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Just to be clear, if there were another magazine like Guitar World that had featured them, would that be enough, or are you suggesting that the notability of the magazine is questionable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.75.160 (talk) 01:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Per this. Tb hotch * ۩  ۞ 01:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep per Criteria #2 (Self-titled album charted, nearly hitting 2 on Billboard's "Heatseakers") and #7 (One of the more prominently and popular leaders of Djent) of WP:BAND. In addition, in only two weeks (read: 13 days) they will meet criteria #5 by having release 2 albums on a notable label. Based #2 and #5 alone, I feel, merits inclusion. Otherwise, looking at #5 we delete and then in almost no time, they become notable. Green Runner  0  01:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I dispute that g7 applies. Of what notable style are they a prominent representative? - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 04:00, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Djent, as previously stated. Green Runner  0  19:22, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You have not disputed that they meet criteria #2 (which alone should qualify for notability) and will meet #5 on April 19, 2011, and as mentioned elsewhere, they performed a song on a compilation (the "Homefront" soundtrack), which qualifies them for #10. They indisputably meet two of the criteria for notability and will meet a third in six days.
 * Keep Over 50,000 Facebook fans. Toured extensively in the US. Have just finished touring in the UK. Were supporting the Dillinger Escape Plan in Australia. Jeff Loomis who is very well notable solo'd on the song "Racecar" on the self-titled album. Toontrack, a large company cited Misha Mansoor (guitarist) as their artist for the month in October 2010. Misha is also cited as an artist on "Bareknuckle Pickups" website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.48.54 (talk) 14:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment. One lifeline might be - although it looks tenuous - that the band's record company Roadrunner used Universal Music Group for distribution (uncited) from 2001 to an indeterminate date, and that it released a Periphery record in 2010 while it had been apparently taken over by Warner Bros, this in 2007, although the out-of-date 2007 cite for this is now unsupported as the Warner Bros archive only goes back to 2008. This is grasping at straws I know.  Any significance of the charts mentioned above is another matter.  If the article survives, it needs a good flush-out - weasles, inlines to You Tube, and fanpoop. Acabashi (talk) 01:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment. Keep as per section 6 in addition to 2, 7 (Djent), and 5 (as soon as their EP is released) on WP:MUSIC; former drummer Travis Orbin is currently playing with the band Sky Eats Airplane; lead guitarist Misha Mansoor has produced albums for bands such as Animals As Leaders and Circles, as well as Periphery and his other project Haunted Shores. (talk) 12:35, 7 April 2011 (GMT)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Keep due to the fact that they fall into the subgenre Djent (#7 WP:BAND) as one of the main influences. This is surely enough justification alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salamander121 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by FearOfTheDuck (talk • contribs) 14:35, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep as per criteria #10 - They covered Metallica's One for Homefront. Sam  1123  Talk to me!  16:07, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - this is going to be another interesting AfD :/ - A l is o n  ❤ 10:09, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep This must suffice: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/03/djent-metal-geeks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.70.175.217 (talk) 13:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep This band had a whole double page spread, with a 4 page article that followed in Guitar Center Magazine, America's premier source for rock and metal guitar news. This band is a fantastic up and coming experience, having just completed a full headlining North American tour. --Dkannen (talk) 20:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep but include sources that cite their genre, as many people as wrongly listing them as "progressive metal" when they are clearly more a metalcore/mathcore/djent band --Dexter_prog (talk • contribs • count ) @ 14:55, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * "'Keep'" This would be a shame for wiki to remove this Bands page, imagine if some of the great bands were brushed aside early in there careers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.74.196 (talk) 15:27, 13 April 2011 (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.