Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acute (band)
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- 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 delete. Daniel→♦ 10:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Acute (band)
Completely non-notable band. Only links are to their MySpace page, the band's webpage, and the label webpage. Article still reads a bit like self-promo (telling us when their next album is coming out), though perhaps it was cleaned up. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 18:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom --PEAR (talk) 18:27, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
- The drummer is an ex-member of Ozma (who are notable themselves), and I think the band was mentioned in Spin. Either way, that doesn't exactly help this AFD. Weak Delete unless properly sourced. TheLetterM 14:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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- comment - were they mentioned non-trivially? Also, were they mentioned in Spin because the mag got a press release email and it was a slow-news month? I have little faith in music-mag mentions, and wouldn't consider them automatically to be an assertion of notability since it's very easy for you to get your band written up if you have the right promo people behind you. A feature article in a music mag might be acceptable, as long as the magazine hasn't been implicated in a pay-for-print scheme where a feature article is only written for the band whose label bought a 2-page advertising spread in the magazine. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 14:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
- reply - This is the comment from Spin:
- "Armed with fuzzy guitars and sharp-as-Ginsu songcraft, [Acute] are the latest gold medalists in the Los Angeles' continuing power-pop Olympics." - SPIN
- Ok, that's still not exactly going to keep the article from getting blammed. It's certainly only a passing mention (although one I do remember reading this in a Spin issue though that's not gonna hold up in court), and for anyone who hasn't read the Spin mention, for all they'd know, that line could be just fabricated. Because of the lack of evidence of notability, I'll change my say to a regular Delete. TheLetterM 17:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, if all they got was one sentence full of hyperbole, that doesn't do much for their notability level. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 00:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
- comment - were they mentioned non-trivially? Also, were they mentioned in Spin because the mag got a press release email and it was a slow-news month? I have little faith in music-mag mentions, and wouldn't consider them automatically to be an assertion of notability since it's very easy for you to get your band written up if you have the right promo people behind you. A feature article in a music mag might be acceptable, as long as the magazine hasn't been implicated in a pay-for-print scheme where a feature article is only written for the band whose label bought a 2-page advertising spread in the magazine. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 14:48, 5 August 2007 (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.
