Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Lakeman Brothers


 * 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 keep. Stifle (talk) 10:48, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

The Lakeman Brothers

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This page has been unsourced since its creation in 2006. Each of the brothers has his own stand-alone page, but there's nothing intrinsically notable about this short-lived collaboration from early on in their careers. There isn't an obvious target page for a redirect, as each of the brothers is individually notable. Also bundling their album Three Piece Suite (album), which was created at the same time and turned into a redirect in 2014. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:17, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and England.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:32, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - This one's tough because all three brothers have their own music careers and have performed together in various permutations and collaborations. Regardless, they only worked as a trio very briefly, and their one album in that configuration is already described at each of the brothers' articles. The trio did not achieve notability as an entity in its own right. (Off topic: all three of the brothers' articles really need to be cleaned up.) ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 16:17, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep This is the second time I've recently heard a !vote for deletion claiming that it is better to turn a bluelink red when there is more than one possible redirect target. WP:MUSIC recommends precisely the opposite, as does a simple commonsense assessment of user-friendliness. The Lakeman Brothers could be turned into basically a disambig location (which, more or less, it already is), or it could be redirected to an album article (sensible, though online coverage of that album is scant - probably would take some work plumbing UK music archives to find suitable sources), or we could use existing sources for the band, which include not one but two Allmusic biographies. Chubbles (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * keep - it's difficult to find sources because of the individual careers of the brothers, but there is stuff out there, and they also appear to have performed for a time as The Lakeman Family Band - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. GiantSnowman 07:27, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep The nomination makes some good points, and yet the coverage does exist for the brothers as a group, as indicated in the above links. ShelbyMarion (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per the sources found by GiantSnowman. Agreed that the article needs a lot of cleanup, but that can easily happen. Rollidan (talk) 09:34, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.