Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shoplifters

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The result of the debate was delete. --Tony Sidaway Talk 22:16, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

The Shoplifters
Being Swedish, I have never heard of this Swedish-Russian grungeband, which the article has claimed has existed since 1986, and released three CDs and two DVDs. Furthermore, I can't find a single Google hit that in any way confirms any of the alleged facts in the text. In fact, I get zero non-Wikipedia Google hits for all the CD titles and most of the names of the band members. The interwiki link to the Russian wikipedia seems to go to an unrelated page. I'm fairly certain that this and the related members' articles are all completely bogus. Delete as elaborate hoax. Alarm 16:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC) The Welsh Shoplifters don't qualify according to WP:Music and unless some verifiable sources are provided neither do these people. Allmusic.com currently has no entry for any group called the Shoplifters. Vote also applies to band members listed below. Capitalistroadster 00:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator. Uppland 17:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete due to lack of verifiability. The only band going by the name of The Shoplifters that I could find by Google are from South East Wales
 * Delete. Found no information on them via Google. If they exist at all, they may be a garage band. &spades; DanMS 04:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I like waffles. --Fred-Chess 05:43, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. --Agamemnon2 11:31, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Three of the supposed members: Jennie Hansson, Lisbeth Högfors and Yvette Simonova match with identities on Swedish Wikipedia (User:CNB, User:Twincinema and User:Hansan), where they are frequently accused of being sock puppets. Gunnar Larsson 20:11, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Gunnar Larsson, bandmember Jennie Hansson clearly seems to match User:Hansan. Jordgubbe 20:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've made some improvements to the grammar, spelling and tone of the articles for The Shoplifters and the band's members, but have also been suspicious of the lack of Google hits for the band, the members, the "big Swedish festival" they supposedly played at and their recordings. Also, the articles tend to feature interwiki links to non-existent links in other Wikipedias or to articles which have clearly been machine translated. CLW 08:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Gunnar Larsson. We have discussed this intensively lately on Swedish WP and the users mentioned above have made trouble on the Swedish site too. Hakanand 16:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Clearly a hoax. Sten André 17:45, 22 August 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.