Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Former fat boys

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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 01:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Former fat boys

A band whose studio is made of plastoic pipes and sleeping bags. Apparently they make references to Eminem; if it were the other way round that might be notable. Just zis Guy you know? 10:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Winning something from SomethingAwful doesn't make one pass WP:MUSIC. When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be about guys who lost weight, so it was certainly a better article than I expected to read, at least. GassyGuy 10:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep if we can find sources. --Liface 16:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Sources for what? Even if everything on the page is verified, how would they be notable? -- Kicking222 22:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete for completely failing to pass WP:MUSIC in any conceivable way. -- Kicking222 22:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable, and reads like an ad. It could be rewritten to get rid of the ad qualities, but then what would be left? Originalbigj 00:39, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I'm trying to fix it. I corrected some of the information in it initially. I'm not sure who submitted it originally, but they screwed a lot of stuff up. I sent the band a MySpace message to see if I could get any additionaly information to add to the page. I think it definitely fits with WP:MUSIC's guidelines now. At the very least they are on AllMusic and have been on MTV.Mcchrisfan 26 July 2006
• Keep I was the one who originally wrote it, the band's site was down and I had to do a lot of the article from memory. The infomation is verifiable, and the article is informative and about a real band with a decent sized fan base, I really don't see a reason to delete it.

Soilwork 20:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 17:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, no way this passes WP:MUSIC, although the Photoshopped "album cover" was good for a chuckle. --Kinu ^t/_c 00:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't believe they meet WP:MUSIC. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 02:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Dog shit article about a dog shit group and I'm amazed by how long it took for AfD to happen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.231.62.139 (talk • contribs).. Let's keep it civil here, shall we? NawlinWiki 04:00, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, not enough here for notability band. NawlinWiki 04:00, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Ho Touchdown is no My Humps, and this is the first of the band I've ever heard of. Nate 04:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep There are plenty less relevent bands with live articles on Wikipedia. It fits several caveats of WP:Music not limited to major radio play in both Chicago (the #3 market in the country), allmusic, MTV, and just a fairly large underground internet following. They're not quite mc chris but behind mc chris and mc frontalot, they're probably the next biggest thing in nerdcore. Just because a bunch of you haven't heard of them doesn't really make a vaild reason to delete. I've never heard of Shar Jackson and she's got a Wikipedia page that somehow fits WP:Music. mcchrisfan
  • The existence of "less relevant" articles isn't a reason to keep this article. It might be a reason to delete those articles, though. Zetawoof^(ζ) 06:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: Struck through "keep" as the user had already expressed their opinion above. -- Kicking222 17:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — FireFox ^(talk) _{14:28, 31 July '06}
• Keep, it's better than a lot of articles, and even though I've never heard of them, they seem to have a large following. ONUnicorn 16:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, it still fails WP:MUSIC miserably. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - if you are going to keep Stud(band) above, and it looks like you are going to, then you should keep this one too. GrapePie 19:43, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment First off, that's not a reason for keeping an article. Second, and more importantly (?), this user is a suspected sockpuppet. -- Kicking222 15:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Whilst I would have loved to have seen a newspaper reference, or indication that one should exist (eg, toured and well-known in local area), I did not. Shame. LinaMishima 20:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Very Weak Keep. I searched on Limewire... No results. <800 Google hits. But: Were on MTV's "The Reality Show" and the album is hardly photoshoped... It's on Amazon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Newkai (talk • contribs).
• Keep There is a newspaper reference linked in the article in the external links section. A quick google this afternoon revealed the album is now available through Rhapsody and Emusic and according to the official site iTunes / Napster in mid-August. Torrent searches revealed links, though torrents were dead.mcchrisfan
  • Note: struck through again; see above. -- Kicking222 15:18, 1 August 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.