Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rare Americans


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  23:44, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Rare Americans

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Article about a band, not reliably sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The only real notability claim being attempted here is of the "got X views on YouTube" variety, which is not part of our inclusion criteria for musical artists at all, and the article otherwise amounts to "they exist" -- but when it comes to the sourcing, two of the five footnotes are the band's own self-published marketing materials from their record label and their public relations agent (which are not support for notability), one is a user-generated platform (which is not support for notability), and two are purely local media coverage in their own hometown media market in purely local-interest contexts (the robbery of the bandleader's home studio and a piece of "local band releases song"), with no strong evidence of wider nationalizing coverage. And even on a Google search for other sources, I'm not finding anything particularly strong: just blogs, Q&A interviews in which the band members are talking about themselves in the first person, and glancing namechecks of their existence in coverage of other things or people, with nothing solid enough to turn the tide. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when they actually accomplish something that passes NMUSIC and garner the reliable source coverage to match, but nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt them from having to be referenced better than this. (Also worth noting that it was first created by an editor who's been cross-wiki blocked for sockpuppeteering and persistently violating copyright by copy-pasting content directly from primary sources, thus implying a strong possibility of paid WP:COI editing.) Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:03, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and British Columbia. Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete, no evidence of passing WP:BAND. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:24, 3 May 2022 (UTC)


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