Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Van Damsel


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The result was delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:50, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Van Damsel

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Article about a band with no particularly strong claim of notability per WP:NMUSIC and no strong reliable source coverage to carry it. The awards listed here are from local radio stations in a single media market, not national awards that would pass NMUSIC #8, and the chart success claims derive from an uncertified WP:BADCHART (Mediabase), not from the publication (Billboard) that actually qualifies as Canada's notability-making national charts. (There was a cite to Billboard present in the chart table, but it led to the chart history of the unrelated band Dear Rouge, not any chart history of this band — so it was an uncorrected copy-paste fuckup, not a notability-supporting source for Van Damsel.) And the remaining references are almost entirely to blogs and unreliable sources and a smattering of local coverage in their own hometown pennysavers, with no real evidence of WP:GNG-worthy media coverage being shown beyond a single article in Exclaim!. Literally the only notability claim left here is that they played some concert dates in support of their debut album -- but for a tour to be the notability-maker in and of itself for a band that doesn't pass any other NMUSIC criterion, we would need some evidence that the tour generated ongoing media coverage, such as concert reviews, and not just a one-off calendar list of the tour dates. And the punchline to all of this is that the band then broke up within a matter of weeks, so they have no prospect of getting over any other NMUSIC criterion in the future. Basically, there's not enough quality referencing here to deem them as passing NMUSIC #1, but nothing stated in the article body is "inherently" notable enough to exempt them from having to have better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 23:03, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:05, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —AE  ( talk  •  contributions ) 00:55, 8 September 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. A minor showing on a non-major chart and two non-notable awards. The fact the band no longer exists also means that there will be no more chances for notability.Tuzapicabit (talk) 11:31, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kpg  jhp  jm  01:14, 15 September 2018 (UTC)


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