Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unauthorized Rolling Stones


 * 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. Mailer Diablo 06:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Unauthorized Rolling Stones
vanity/spam article, marginal notability

This is a self-promotional article by persistent Wikipedia spammer Rudy Colombini; see
 * Articles for deletion/Rudy Colombini

for more info. It was originally entered from an IP address resolving to a hotel owned by Colombini and as such is almost certainly a vanity article. The band in question is a part time Rolling Stones cover band that plays in the San Francisco area. It has no records released AFAIK (anyone who wants to listen to Rolling Stones records buys real ones). It does have a few local press articles cited but that's pretty marginal for a global encyclopedia. The "Best of the Bay" award is not impressive since it's not really a competitive award; the newspaper just makes up categories to give out awards in, as a way of promoting local businesses and products, nothing like the "major awards" listed at WP:MUSIC. The article gives no evidence of the band's notability per any of the other WP:MUSIC guidelines except the above.

The tone of the article is relentlessly self-promotional and many of the details are unverifiable, and the author has a history of making disputed self-promotional claims (see the AFD linked above). The article also tries to promote the nonexistent "SF Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" and "Music City SF", two more vanity articles now deleted (author wrote about those venues as if they were separate and notable entities, when in fact both are at the same street address and are still apparently under construction. See Talk:Rudy Colombini for some details.


 * delete as nom Phr (talk) 01:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, excellent research from nom. I also liked the contribution of Zepheus, having someone "on the ground" as it were, to check out the site of the reputed "Hall of Fame".  Tychocat 09:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Nuttah68 10:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and possibly with fire. --Brad101 13:24, 18 July 2006 (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.