Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shellbacks


 * 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 consensus is that the article fails the relevant notability guideline. Davewild (talk) 14:05, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

The Shellbacks

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No indication of significant third-party coverage. The sources of the article are all from the band directly and their music so far has been self-released. For now, they don't meet the requirements of the relevant guideline. Pichpich (talk) 19:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Utterly fails WP:MUSIC; no major label albums, no chart singles, no reliable sources, etc. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 19:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing to indicate that they pass any criterion of WP:BAND. No significant coverage found.--Michig (talk) 21:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * strong delete. Utterly fails eveything. Blatant promospam. WP:VSCA. I tried editing the article to try to make it masquerade as encyclopedic, but was completely blown away by the spamicity of the article. If this sort of article can't be speedied, there must be a problem with the process. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 14:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There's sort of an ambiguity about whether one should speedy spammish articles on notable bands (I believe we should but not all admins do so in practice). And there was some sort of weak claim of notability so probably the speedy deletion on those grounds would have also been declined. Pichpich (talk) 00:44, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't find any claim to notability, in the article. There was maybe some hyperbole and peacocking, but that's not the same. To me, a notability claim in the article would look something like "X is notable because..." - except, you know, written better than that. And this article definitely is a CSD:G11, I think. Though, it's true, I've tried to G11 spam articles many times, was rebuffed by editors, and had to take it to AfD. Thankfully, those sorts of AfDs result in a delete 90% of the time; I just think it's a tremendous waste of all these good editors' time to have to bring such articles here. Oh well. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 15:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


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