Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friends (group)

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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. WP:V is not negotiable. No problem with recreation if reliable 3rd party sources are found.Cúchullain t/c 06:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Friends (group)

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Some bands enter Eurovision, win, and are ABBA. Some enter, lose, and split up and are never heard of again. Guess which this is? Guy (Help!) 14:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and expand - IMO reaching the Eurovision final is unusual enough to confer notability in and of itself (aside from anything else, guaranteeing a place on the top-selling compilation album that follows each ESC) - although I'd support a cull of those bands knocked out in the semi-finals. - Iridescenti (talk to me!) 14:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • So add the multiple non-trivial sources of which they have, as a notable band, been primary subject, and the article can be expanded form them. No problem. Guy (Help!) 15:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Speedy keep i think this is like the 20th article i have seen that have been nominated by the same person in bad faith. Just keep it.Its notable. And as usuall it isnt a proper nomination from the nominator.And hes reason for nomination isnt a good one either.--Matrix17 15:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment: bad faith delete add from Hackney. He has done this on numerous pages. just to annoy people.--Matrix17 15:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Please see no personal attacks. One Night In Hackney303 15:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Comment - Matrix. We've gone over your (in)civility before, and you have links on your talk page that'll inform you about that. Check WP:AGF while you're at it. You have to stop taking things personally when there are administrative actions conducted on articles. --Strangnet 15:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment: Yes and as usuall you do your best to provoke. Maybe you should try to read the pages. and the discussions and then make your opinion.You just dont have an open mind. If someone nominated an article for deletion just because YOU had done it you would be so happy either.And that i actually provide articles for this wiki just slips you by constantly.always just picking on the bad things. And that the nominator havent done the nomination properly you dont complain about either. strange, or not! I stand be KEEP--Matrix17 15:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per Hackney ⇒ SWATJester On Belay! 18:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as none-hit wonder --Boongoman 00:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The article on the Melodifestivalen (which the band had to win in order to appear at Eurovision in the first place, and winning that is no mean feat by any means, indeed I'd argue it's a "major competition" in line with WP:BAND) claims that the band was the first group from a reality show to win that event. I'm running into a brick wall with sources entirely in Swedish, but given the time period involved there's a reasonable chance that this was the first reality-show-winning group to compete at Eurovision as well. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 09:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Further comment. There's also the small fact that their song was officially plagiarised from an earlier entry. Whether this speaks to the notability of the band or to that of something else is up for debate, but it's certainly a factor somewhere. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 09:30, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment: I have now added a link to europes largest Eurovison site that wrote and article on the band.--Matrix17 11:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong Keep. This band is very well-known in Sweden and they had their own TV series a couple of years back, deleting this would definately be down to US-centricism. It also meets the Wikipedia requirements of notability for bands. Mackan 18:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment, I wouldn't classify this as "US-centricism"; the nominator isn't from the States...--Isotope23 19:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Maybe the nomination itself isn't down to "US-centrism", but the deletion of the article could still be. Still, sloppy usage of the word, maybe Anglo-centrism is more appropriate. Mackan 19:28, 3 April 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.