Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tidal Waves Bands


 * 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. No prejudice towards future redirection Mark Arsten (talk) 20:43, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

The Tidal Waves Bands

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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  Cliff  Smith 18:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  Cliff  Smith 18:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

This isn't a real article, but merely a list of non-notable bands that happen to have had the same name. Essentially it's a disambiguation page — except that none of the bands has a separate Wikipedia article to link to, all of them claim mere existence ("with videos on you tube and a MySpace page") and fail to demonstrate any actual notability, and the two "references" both completely fail to meet our reliable source rules. Was previously prodded, but that was removed when the bad reference links were added. This simply isn't appropriate content for Wikipedia in its current form — and even if actual notability could be demonstrated for one or more of these bands, each would need to have its own separate article at a title more consistent with our naming conventions, rather than all five being discussed in one list. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 16:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 01:53, 2 August 2012 (UTC)




 * Delete Any notable bands should be listed on the disambiguation page Tidal wave. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - absolutely no reason to have a page listing a bunch of non-notable bands on the spurious grounds that they have similar names -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Disambiguation pages exist to disambiguate existing articles, not the entire Internet. bd2412  T 14:27, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Tidal Waves and then delete The Tidal Waves Bands. At least two of the bands (the 1965 and 1972 ones) are clearly notable with reliable sources in both print and online media.  Only the first of these is covered in any depth in the present article.  In order to preserve the contribution history, the present article should be redirected to The Tidal Waves, and then all information not about the 1965 band should be removed from it.  The redirect The Tidal Waves Bands can then be deleted.  An entry for the 1965 band can be added to the disambiguation page at Tidal wave.  (That page already contains an entry for the 1972 band.) —Psychonaut (talk) 12:02, 7 August 2012 (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.