Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Jive Aces


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The result was   delete. &mdash; Coren (talk) 04:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

The Jive Aces

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Notability - It's been tagged for notability for a year now, and the only things anyone's come up with are self-published reviews (and that I mean by self-published authors, not reviews published by the band), some club they play at every Friday calling them "The UKs No 1 [sic] Jive and Swing Band" and unsourced claims of them having worked with Van Morrison, Count Basie and John Travolta. I've done some Google searches, and can't come up with much other than self-published sources or other non-reliable sources, one article about how some members of an audience at one of their gigs in Derry were upset that they were pushing Scientology, and the Derry city council page about the award. I've also done a Google News Archive Search, and have come up with 122 hits, but they almost all seem to be either Jive Aces promotional material or promo material for jazz/swing festivals they've played at. A couple of exceptions - a couple of letters to the editor claiming they played very well, and a Guardian article briefly mentioning that the Church of Scientology allegedly used them to sweeten the City of London police. In all, they don't seem to have significant coverage, and so don't pass WP:NOTE. Darimoma (talk) 16:28, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete due to lack of significant independent coverage. This band have been pushing their message all over Britain and further afield for several years, but nobody seems interested enough to write about them, so we shouldn't have an article here. They have certainly performed extensively (I've seen them playing on the street in my local city centre) and have several releases, but in this case I don't feel that's enough. If significant independent coverage came to light, that would change things.--Michig (talk) 16:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. We66er (talk) 17:55, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, article fails to establish notability as per WP:MUSIC.   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 11:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


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