Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balcony band

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The result was delete both. Singularity 01:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Balcony band

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Balcony the band (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This band isn't signed, isn't notable and the article was written by the band themselves. It looks like a poorly written ad for them. Eggy49er 01:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Although the article needs cleanup, following the references shows the band is signed (or used to be) and has put out two reviewed albums AllMusic Entry --NeilN 01:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. I did a search and both labels that the band released albums on have zero ghits. In addition, the band themselves has zero ghits. There actually doesn't seem to be any sources that this band exists., except for the AMG link. Eggy49er 02:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. In addition to Eggy49er's comments, I ran a Lexis-Nexis English-language media search of the band and "Steven Lester" (among other keywords mentioned in the article.) There appears to be no mention of the band in any third-party article, let alone reliable mainstream third-party sources. Based on this fact alone, the article should have been speedily deleted as blatant advertising. J Readings 02:27, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong delete. Blatant advertising. Questionable notability. No publicly verifiable third-party sources and citations for any of the assertions made, except the band itself. POV language. J Readings 02:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong delete. I would call it "American Band-spam," but they're from England. Realkyhick 02:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• SPEEDY delete. Total WP:COI creation. Agree 100% with J Readings. jddphd (talk · contribs) 02:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete advertising. Oysterguitarist 02:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong delete Complete advertising which sounds like it was copied-and-pasted from the band's website (if they, you know, had one). fuzzy510 06:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy delete Not even a claim of notability in the article. Precious Roy 16:37, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. I'm a music journalist for The Villager and Downtown Express and have seen Balcony in concert and have heard the albums as well. It is vey good and if it weren't for major label neglect they would have a much higher profile. I have linked to my comments about them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fladgyglitz (talk • contribs) — Fladgyglitz (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Comment. It appears that Fladgyglitz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) posted the above vote. The link provided appears to be to a individual blog entry that reads: If you'd like to hear a relatively unknown band that sounds like a cross between Bowie, Scott Walker with a little goth thrown in the mix then check out Balcony. My vote remains: Strong delete.J Readings 23:05, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, Fails WP:MUSIC. Nenyedi • ^{(Deeds•Talk)} 20:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Blatant advertising and WP:COI violation. Note that Balconymusic (talk · contribs) has duplicated this article at Balcony the band. I've added that to the above AfD, I hope correctly. Hint, when duplicating an article, don't duplicate the AfD template, too. eaolson 20:51, 19 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.