Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Adorned in Ash

Hi, Knyzna1

First I'd like to say thank you for your attention in reading this page and noting the shortcomings it has. Regarding the possible deletion of this page for Adorned in Ash, I would like to offer the following to assist in resolving the question of notability:

1. Adorned in Ash has been the subject of a myriad of publications as can be referenced in the references list in the Adorned in Ash Wiki page (E-zines, newspapers, websites) with the recent addition of an interview and album review (separate entries) from metalresource.nl (Netherlands based) and coverage on Witchfest by Metal for Africa. Other reviews and articles include RSA based as well as from Mozambique and I have avoided using commercial references from Sweden, Canada, USA and Finland. This lines up with notability Criteria for musicians and ensembles as per WP:BAND namely "Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself."

2. Adorned in Ash has been interviewed and broadcast on Mozambican National television as part of the performance in Goro Fest (soon to visit Namibia, Botswana, Angola and possibly even Egypt!). This ties in with no 4 of the notability criteria "Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country."

3. Adorned in Ash was part of the lineup for Witchfest 2015, making history and sharing the stage with other notable internationally touring acts such as Cannibal Corpse, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Epica, Alestorm and many more. Witchfest has been covered globally by multiple sources, both online and in print. This also ties up with no 4 of the notability criteria "Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country."

4. Links to Adorned in Ash have been visited a sufficient amount of times to be able to get a Google Knowledge Graph. You are welcome to search for Adorned in Ash to confirm this. I do believe that it takes quite a doing to achieve this, so we must be seeing lots of hits.

P.S. As a Christian Metal group Adorned in Ash strives to take Christian beliefs and values and apply them in places where they would not normally be seen such as Witchfest and metal clubs. We have the ability to reach youths in places where the conventional church does not and have been able to reconcile individuals who have felt judged and shunned by the church for enjoying a particular style of music. We have received lots of support from normal churches and as such regularly feature on the High On Faith church tours, showing people in more conventional churches what we do and how we do it. We are happy to give powerful metal to express our faith in an all-powerful God. I have kept this information in the page to a minimum as we've found that readers associate anything Christian with being judged or over-preaching and the shy away from interaction and we'd like to avoid this in order to cultivate conversations with individuals and thus help strengthen their faith without them feeling bombarded or cornered. I thus hope that you can help me steer this page in such a direction as to achieve the professional level it deserves, being a source of knowledge to those who read it.

Thank you and kind Regards,

LeonvanRensburg (talk) 18:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)