Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Candy Twins


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The result was delete. Tone 11:27, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

The Candy Twins

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The only source is from The Sun that is deprecated as a reliable source. Also, COI - article created by User:Drumcandy, self-claimed to be a member of the band. Fails WP:MUSIC. Delete. Just Chilling (talk) 16:35, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 16:40, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 16:40, 27 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Possibly notable, but I'd want to see more than what's here now. What did the NME ever say about them? Andy Dingley (talk) 16:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * how do we know the NME ever mentioned them, and if they did, how would we find out, short of going to the British Library and spending hours trawling through back issues? If mentioned at all, it probably wasn't much, given the band's entire output appears to be one EP. A redirect to David Young (novelist) is possible, given that they are mentioned in passing there. Richard3120 (talk) 17:04, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Per WP:BURDEN, it's just not my problem to check that, it's the article author's. But there needs to be some sourcing, from somewhere. The Sun is poor (although I wouldn't rule it out) and we're supposed to be taking multiple sources as our baseline. But for a band at that time, I would expect the NME to cover any UK band 'worthy of mention'. Exceptions are possible - the Crucial Three situation - but they're going to be exceptional. If one of the involved editors was in the band, then don't they have a clippings file? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:31, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, I'm just wondering where you got the impression that they might have been mentioned by the NME at some point, because I can't see any mention of that in the article. As you say, the editor probably kept clippings of every media mention they had, so if he didn't mention the magazine, my assumption is that they were never featured. Richard3120 (talk) 11:49, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know if the NME ever did mention them. But there's a strong correlation for UK bands between notability and the NME noticing, and vice versa. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:03, 28 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not really significant even within their (ever-diminishing) world.  Not really encyclopaedic.  RobinCarmody (talk) 21:15, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Very little on them on any search.  Fail any form of WP:GNG.  Found this on David Young (novelist}, the ex-member,  saying that ""About eight years previously, I'd been in a little indiepop band (The Candy Twins) that managed to blag a tour of Germany," he tells me.". Britishfinance (talk) 01:20, 7 March 2019 (UTC)


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