Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ritmi i Rrugës


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 18:20, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Ritmi i Rrugës

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This band article does not appear to cover a notable band. I've performed a wp:before search, and cannot myself find indicia of notability under wp standards, including sufficient RS coverage. Others are welcome to try. Epeefleche (talk) 15:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * In what way are the sources referenced in the article insufficient? For a Kosovo-Albanian group to be described in The New York Times as "star local rappers" and to get coverage in an English-language encyclopedia from an academic publisher seems pretty notable to me. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The NYT devotes only 2 sentences to them.
 * And while the encyclopedia is listed as a ref -- please let us know what it says about the band. If anything. Since you are puzzled as to how it is not sufficient, it would be helpful to know from you what it says.
 * In short, it is not clear to me that 2 sentences is the sort of "significant coverage" in multiple reliable sources that satisfies our notability requirements.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  --Epeefleche (talk) 05:53, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albania-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 20:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - The line for which the encyclopedia is cited, "...coined the term Albanian Rap, to describe this merger of Rap music with original Albanian-themed lyrical contents", sounds like a joke. I find it hard to believe that a genuinely notable encyclopedia would seriously assert that rap written by Albanians is a different genre of music than rap written by anyone else. And putting the words "Albanian" and "rap" next to each other to describe rap written by Albanians is hardly "coining a term". That's like saying you coined the term "black dog" to describe dogs with black fur.
 * More importantly, all the article's claims of notability for the group, e.g. "Ritmi i Rrugës have released a great number of hit singles", are not only unreferenced(save the aforementioned line, but again, I highly doubt that encyclopedia actually says that), they are suspiciously vague. If they have so many hit singles, why doesn't the article name even one? --Martin IIIa (talk) 15:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Logan Talk Contributions 00:09, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete: While I empathize about the difficulty of finding reliable sources, there are no waivers to WP:V.  Ravenswing  14:02, 10 June 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.