Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detroit Techno Militia Collective

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The result was keep. Mailer Diablo 15:52, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Detroit Techno Militia Collective

Non-notable local band. Has plenty of references from reliable sources in Detroit, but nothing from outside of Detroit. No entries in either Allmusic or Discogs. I undeleted this after someone requested on my talk page. After cleaning it up to remove the unencyclopedic tone and adding references, I don't think it's keep-worthy. Delete. Kimchi.sg 16:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep, even if the coverage is local, if they meet WP:RS standards then this survives WP:MUSIC as having "been featured in multiple non-trivial published works in reliable and reputable media." -- H·G (^words/_works) 19:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, verifiable. JYolkowski // talk 22:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, but suggest the closing admin relist for consensus. I was the original prodder and would have appreciated being told of its relisting. That aside, the original article was untenable and Kimchi.sg's improvements are a vast improvement. Still, the external links are asically local gossip/blog links. My Boy Scout troop made the local paper once when I was growing up - I don't think anyone calls us notable. Also, the original version listed the members of this organization and it was something like 10-12 members. To me, that sounds like it is a small DJ business and not at all notable. BigDT 18:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• I would just like to say that Detroit Techno Militia is not a Band. Yes the site has 11 DJ/producers, but DTM is one of the driving forces in Detroit electronic music community. Their members have been featured in URB magazine and various other major news organizations in the music community. URB does not maintain online archives of all their magazines, but there is a link to this on their site [1]. T.Linder from DTM was reviewed on Allmusic.com [2] and DTM will have their first entry on discogs in September 2006. There are other articles about some of the members and the work they are doing around the world to help promote Detroit Techno [3] Unfortunately in the underground music community, mainstream press is hard to come by. DTM played the nefarious stage at this years DEMF - the largest outdoor electronic music festival [4] --Technochick 00:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Keep - meets press coverage requirements. PT ^(s-s-s-s) 16:29, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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