Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portable folk 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 of the debate was DELETE. This has nominal two-thirds to delete, and WP:MUSIC will ensure it hasn't a prayer if I relist it. -Splash^talk 00:35, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portable folk band

Neglected article about a band that self-released one album. No evidence of notability. No AMG entry. Delete —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-20 11:36Z

• Keep Even if a subject is non-notable to most people, it might be notable to some. What is lost by keeping an article that will hardly be visited anyway? If an article contains verifiable information, I'd say keep it. Wiki is not paper. However, the article does need to be cleaned up to conform to WP:STYLE. ··· rWd · Talk ··· 12:40, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, WP:NMG. PJM 13:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment -- Self-publishing usually isn't worth anything in the overall context of the industry. Very few reviewers will touch it, music shops won't stock it except maybe under "local interest". It's supremely difficult to get recognition outside the industry, and usually that's something a music group has to go through in order to achieve notability. It can be done -- ask DJ Dangermouse or the friends of the late GG Allin -- but it's damn difficult and even more rare. Haikupoet 05:03, 21 January 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.