Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choking Oatmeal

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Choking Oatmeal

Defunct band fails WP:BAND (not enough CD releases). Daniel Case 06:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment — Per Daniel, it fails WP:BAND (WP:MUSIC, it seems to), and the picture in the infobox is dead, not really worth keeping, but a lot of pages link to it and it will result in a fair few red links. Draicone ^(talk) 07:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It fails WP:BAND, but, at the risk of sounding like a Pirates of the Caribbean character, they're "more like guidelines, really. The fact that it has a high number of pages that link to it is a testament to maybe not their notability but the importance of the article. - Thorne N. Melcher 12:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. I should have veriied Draicone's statement about the number of red links it would generate. - Thorne N. Melcher 14:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - it most definitely fails WP:BAND. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but nothing links to this page other than deletion logs, etc. There's no other articles linking when I check "what links here". -- Whpq 13:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The broken picture link is fixed, extended discography updated, and the page is redirected to by at least four other pages.

I would point out that three redirects did not exist when I first checked all were created on August 7, 2006 by User:Alongwaltz who also created the Choking Oatmeal article. Adding redirects to an article that is under review for deletion doesn't make the band any more notable. -- Whpq 21:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete It fails WP:BAND by a long shot.--Bschott 20:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep- having to have signed to a major label, charted, won awards, or played on the radio seems like flimsy protocol for warranting an article. There are very likely many bands listed who do not face these qualifications and surely many, many more who are notable enough to deserve recognition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alongwaltz (talk • contribs)
  • Comment This is striken as you have already voted once, Alongwaltz. --Bschott 04:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I can't find anything that meets WP:MUSIC, and "choking oatmeal" get 16 unique google hots [1]. --Joelmills 02:52, 8 August 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.