Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samla Mammas Manna


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The result was keep‎ __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  23:49, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Samla Mammas Manna

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Unsourced since at least 2012. Has an AllMusic bio and a handful of reviews from the same, but I don't see anything else. Unless we wanna just assume this band was getting covered all the time in the Scandinavian press but none of that has been digitized and I can't find any of it, then I'm not seeing any other coverage and don't see notability met here. See also Articles for deletion/Måltid. QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 15:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and Sweden. QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 15:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Samla Mammas Manna are a pretty important piece of Swedish music history. There's a long-ish article in Göteborgs-Posten from 1994 ("Nu Samlas Mammas Manna – bandet uppstår i lyckliga stunder"), where they are referred to as "the legendary 70s band". Dan Backman referred to them as "one of the flagships of Swedish progressive rock" in a review in 1999, and so on. They were mainly active in the 70s, but a newspaper archive like Mediearkivet which mainly has material from the 2000s, and some from the 90s, still give 439 hits in print media. If I understand correctly, Håkan Lagher's 1999 book Proggen : musikrörelsens uppgång och fall also writes about them, but I don't have the book and can't verify. Anyway: I've started adding basic sourcing, more can be done, I'm of the strong opinion that this article should be kept. /Julle (talk) 17:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh wow. Glad you came along. I'm not familiar with Mediearkivet but if there's really that many hits already then there's probably gotta be more of value out there than I would have access to. Assuming you're going to continue sorting through those and bulking this article up, then I'm willing to withdraw this immediately. Thanks! QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 19:43, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It's a paid service and only available in Swedish, so most people don't have access to it, but most staff or students at a Swedish university ought to have access, and Wikimedia Sweden has paid for access for Wikipedians who need it. /Julle (talk) 20:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per above; also noting that the All Music Guide reviews are editorial, not user-submitted, and thus count toward WP:NMUSIC. Gnomingstuff (talk) 00:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep  Notable Swedish band that is very influential in the worldwide progressive rock community (not just locally in Sweden). Klausness (talk) 12:34, 21 April 2023 (UTC)


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