Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OXES

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 no consensus. Ezeu 01:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OXES

Seems to be an nn-group. It was previously a speedy, but was declined. I changed it to an AfD instead. Now, the author of the original article has told me that they would like to work on it a bit more, so in the event that it's deleted, please let me know - I don't want their editing efforts to go to waste if this ends up being a solid encyclopedic article. HappyCamper 20:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - not a great article but they appear to be a notable group - Oxxxes, a word with no other usage, gets a pretty generous number of GHits [1] and their website archive shows them to be (or at least, to have been) a regular national and international touring act[2]. Ac@osr 22:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
  • "Shows from 2002-2004 not listed for security reasons"? (check the last line of [3]). This smells of hoax to me. Delete B.Wind 16:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - definitely not a hoax, the group, album and EPs are all verified to exist. Ac@osr 17:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I'd say the band is notable enough for inclusion. Celardore 17:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as random bad band, see also the Myspace test. Stifle (talk) 22:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - I'm sure if you used that self prescribed "test" you could probably delete 75% of the bands on Wikipedia, given the gaping ambiguity of the term "main online home" as a result of the majority of mainstream bands also having Myspace pages, which many people can attain tour info, listen to music, buy merchandise, and do so exclusively. OXES have a page on their label, in addition to their official page, so I'm not exactly sure what the point of this arbitrary test was, and why it was put here.

Aubin 23:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - this supposed "Myspace test" is entirely an invention of Stifle and not Wikipedia policy. If one considers it of value, artists up for deletion include The Flaming Lips, Daft Punk, Linkin Park, Sugababes, Sonic Youth, Metallica, Girls Aloud, Shakira, Korn, Gorillaz, The Beatles (let's just mention that one again, The Beatles ) and, hey, get this, Madonna to name just a tiny cross-section of artists. I thought I'd heard it all 'til I clicked on this for a progress report...... Ac@osr 22:07, 2 June 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.