Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rubber Soul (Group)


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The result was   delete. § FreeRangeFrog croak 03:27, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Rubber Soul (Group)

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Had a BLP prod but its not a blp-unotable band that has yet to get big Wgolf (talk) 18:22, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. I hate trying to make sense of non-English Google News results.  Alright, I found these two English-language hits:  and .  I don't know, but they seem to be associated with The Korea Herald.  Here's some more:  (translation),  (translation),  (translation),  (translation).  I dunno, but it seems like they're pretty hot in Korea right now.  I'm sort of guessing, though.  I can't even make much sense of the translations. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:00, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:00, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete New groups are always covered in the media; there is little separation between entertainment agencies and media in Korea. In Korea, you get on TV in order to get famous, not the other way around like it is most other places.  Portions of K-media exist just to report on who's going to be on upcoming TV shows, which makes it appear to outsiders like us that the guests are famous, when in fact they are not.  Groups like this debut almost every day, and all of them could appear as "hot" to someone who doesn't know how K-media works.  So in addition to being mentioned in the K-media, when it comes to kpop we have to look at has the group actually done anything.  In this case, the answer is no.  The article claims they just formed last month (surely not true, but since it's all unsourced...).  They need to have been around for a little while, have released some stuff, have had some modicum of success in order to be considered notable.  Pretty sure this group is on nobody's radar other than obsessed international fans buying into the kpop publicity machine.  So, WP:TOO SOON and WP:CRYSTAL, and group fails WP:GNG. Shinyang-i (talk) 03:54, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 00:03, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per Shinyang's well reasoned arguements. Mattg82 (talk) 00:18, 15 March 2015 (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.