Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Displacements


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:54, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

The Displacements

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND. Appears to be mostly the creation by a number of SPAs (one of which has the username "The displacements") as promotional material for the group. About the only source available online is this interview with their local BBC station which is almost entirely primary material answering trivia questions. It's quite likely that they were featured on national BBC radio programmes as claimed, but almost certainly as one-off plays. The NME review as well is likely to be as part of the magazine's weekly feature spotlighting two or three upcoming bands – if we included every band featured as the "next big thing" in the music press, we'd have hundreds of articles on barely notable bands – and the review can't be verified at present. The group doesn't appear to have released any further records other than the three singles mentioned in the article, all of which were limited releases, so they sold a maximum of 4000 singles during their entire career. The band seems to have split up several years ago, so further reliable sources are unlikely to appear. Richard3120 (talk) 17:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 17:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 17:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Like most bands on their level who were briefly hyped during that period, their notability was marginal even at the time and non-existent since.  RobinCarmody (talk) 16:35, 12 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Two reviews of one of their singles (NME, Manchester Evening News) but nothing about the band; interviews are not always reliable, or evidence of notability. Peter James (talk) 19:02, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Per nom. Britishfinance (talk) 18:18, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. No evidence of strong, independent coverage as required by WP:GNG. Omni Flames (talk) 21:24, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


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