Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milemarker (band)

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 Speedy keep as no support for deletion and nomination is lukewarm. Capitalistroadster 04:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Milemarker (band)

The band in question is sometimes difficult to perform notability searches on, and its popularity has only been weakly asserted in its article. The notability of the band has been argued according to four criteria:

1. A Google search using the search terms "milemarker", "music", and the requirement of having at least one of the band's past record labels in the results (excluding the badly-searched label name "Eyeball"). This gave me about 44,800 results as of September 1, 2006 and 39,000 as of November 11.
2. The Alexa ranking for their Jade Tree Records label, whose website's ranking was 273,376 as of November 11, 2006.
3. Milemarker has toured nationally and internationally [1], which may mean they pass according to Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Musicians and ensembles bullet #3.
4. Lastly, label notability. Jade Tree Records has an established mainspace article that asserts notability and has notable artists signed. By extension, it was asserted that Milemarker should be acceptable as per Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Musicians and ensembles bullet #4:

Has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable).

Another Milemarker label, Eyeball Records, "have released albums by artists such as Thursday, My Chemical Romance and Murder by Death" (according to the label's article).

Does the community feel any of these assertions are under-supported or insufficient in proving notability? -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 00:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• I would keep this article, Milemaker has toured and played major venues throughout the world. They might not be MTV material, but they are very well known within the indepedent music community, and media. Missvain 03:25, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. If they pass the policy for bands, then we have to keep it. Atlantis Hawk 04:48, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Notability has definitely been established. Ben W Bell talk 09:05, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep according to AllMusicGuide's listing (not a perfect source, but moderately reliable, and a much better resource than ghits), they've "toured Europe and the U.S. (twice)". I'd call that independent confirmation; they're notable enough for us. Xtifr _tälk 10:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep notable. verifiable. Tulkolahten 10:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment since nom effectively abstained, and opinion seems unanimous, this may qualify for speedy-keep. Xtifr _tälk 12:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep WP:SK 1, notability is obvious ST47Talk 12:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - It meets the policy for bands and is notable. Bakilas 00:06, 13 November 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.