Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balladeus

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 of the debate was Delete Jtkiefer^{T | C | @} ---- 01:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Balladeus

Band vanity. Non-notable... not on AMG, has 1 album out but no label listed so would seem to fail WP:Music. W.marsh 01:38, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Linuxbeak | Alex Schenck 01:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. NSLE _(讨论) \^<extra> 08:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I'm not sure "band vanity" applies here. This a Flemish group, with articles on the Dutch, Polish and Esperanto Wikipedias (and yes, I realize that does not justify an article on the English Wiki, in and of itself). I can't really tell how notable they are, because very few of the Web sites that mention them are in English. I don't think you can rely on allmusic for judging the notability of music from non-english speaking areas. They may well be quite notable in Europe, but as I can't document that, I won't vote. I do worry about musicians and groups being dismissed as "not-notable" because they are not well-known to English speakers. - Dalbury (talk) 16:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Good points... thanks for bringing them up. I should have checked/noticed that. The closing admin may want to relist this to get more opportunity for consideration.--W.marsh 05:29, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. NN per WP:NMG. PJM 16:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Abstain per Dalbury, and because my Flemish is not good enough to read most of the comments about them, although I would point out that their first release was only in 2004, and they are a folk group - these tend to struggle to gain much notice outside a rather narrow community. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 21:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Boldly into the breach, then, I'll go ahead and vote to delete, not because the band is or is not notable, but because the claims of the article are unverifiable at present for the voters. I think that a help from the author would be welcome, as there is no particular desire to restrict coverage to Anglophone bands. If English-speaking and -reading voters can't verify, though, there isn't much we can do. Geogre 22:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. *drew 02:42, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Geogre. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 23:06, 16 November 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.