Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pin Drop Violence


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:28, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Pin Drop Violence

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Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 20:25, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Indian metal band. The article itself is unsourced, but there are three external links: their official site (not independent from the band), and two interviews, both archived, along with the official site. I don't know whether interviews are reliable or not - I have heard that they are, because they are about the band, but I have also heard that they are not because they are primary sources. I really don't know. But whatever, back to this band. I did a Google search and I found the following: name checks (mostly in context of other metal bands, or metal in general), blogs, pages where you can buy their albums, concert sites, social media, song lyrics (there are a lot of those sites when you search for this band) and stuff which contain the words "pin", "drop" and "violence" but nothing about the band. I found a Rolling Stone India article entitled "Pin Drop Violence was Awesome!" and I thought it was about this band, but nope, it was an interview with the band Tesseract who mentioned PDV in their interview. I also tried searching with the quotation marks, but the results were not any better either. I found a page which reviewed one of their albums, but it seems like a blog as well. The only reliable source was a Blabbermouth page which announced that they have released their first album. That's it. This is also one of those cases when an unreliable topic (in this case, band)'s page manages to stay here for far too long. This article managed to stay here since 2005 (!) and no reliable sources were presented ever since. The fact that so many unreliable bands manage to stay on Wikipedia for such a long time boggles my mind, to be frank.

GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 20:20, 2 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 20:27, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 20:27, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. They seem to have been active in the Mumbai metalcore scene in the early 2000s, but disbanded in 2009. Did not find reliable sources that are not just song lists of their two albums or trivial mentions, as in the Rolling Stone article (an interview of another band, and they barely remembered the name Pin Drop Violence). The most extensive coverage I saw was a 2013 blog interview with one of the former members. --Alan Islas (talk) 12:38, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D My Son  04:09, 10 June 2020 (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.