Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Son of the Sun (band)


 * 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. m.o.p 04:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Son of the Sun (band)

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Unremarkable rock band. No references, no significant claims of notability. Google searches show little coverage - "Son of the Sun" "planet records" shows only 5 unique results, 9 total. "Son of the Sun" "Zak Ward" shows only 147 unique, mainly primary/related sources and social media. MikeWazowski (talk) 01:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 08:57, 28 November 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) 00:05, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, has significant coverage . Alessandra Napolitano (talk) 00:41, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that this is legitimate coverage, but I think it falls short of being substantial enough to justify an encyclopedia entry. The first is a preview in a small, local paper of the act's first concert. The second is a review in a college paper. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 04:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Weak keep, but in desperate need of cleanup. I'm a little confused.  The article describes a band founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1974.  The article says they've "had a long and celebrated career. Most of their hit songs have been used time and time again in various advertisements, movies, television, and even political campaigns."  If true, that would point toward notability, so I clicked the link in the article to their site to see if it contained more information about what ads, movies, etc. their music had been part of.  The page I got, however, is for what appears to be a different band, founded in 2007 (according to their bio: ) in Buffalo, New York by people from New York and California.  Adding to the confusion is that the Wikipedia article refers to Zack Ward (or Zak Ward, as the name is spelled both ways in the article) in the 1974 story, and the web bio refers to Zak Ward as well.  I don't know if the stories of two bands of the same name got conflated, or if someone added apocryphal details to the Wikipedia article, or what.  Before deciding this, it might be helpful to figure out what band we're talking about so we can look in the right places to see if they're notable or not.  The band web site has a list of press mentions which point toward notability: they've been profiled in regional newspapers, reviewed in Juxtapoz, etc. Circumspect (talk) 01:30, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Kudos to Circumspect for noticing something amiss here. This article is a stub about a non-notable band formed in 2007, with a fanciful hoax history created for it. I've removed the hoax bits, which were in fact the bulk of the article. Their actual bio, such as it is, can be found here. They do appear to be a real band, but coverage I've found is sparse and far below WP:N threshhold; the faint few hundred listens that they've amassed on last.fm in the past 6 months suggests I'm not missing anything. If and when they achieve notability in the future, we should have this article back. Until then, I will remember them primarily for this line that, alas, I deleted within one of the hoax sections: "Son of the Sun attributes its fame and prosperity to their fans, love of Mother Earth, and silk clothing." --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 04:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Circumspect's excellent research. Σ Α Π Φ (Sapph) Talk 17:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: There is no significant coverage. SL93 (talk) 21:51, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:56, 8 December 2011 (UTC)


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