Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hellogoodbye (2nd nomination)

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 KEEP. You see, deletion review does work. -Splash^talk 02:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hellogoodbye

This article was deleted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hellogoodbye, subsequently re-created and speedied twice, and eventually created as a redirect to Hello Goodbye. It was then listed on Wikipedia:Deletion review, where consensus was to undelete and relist it here due to new information being provided, namely:

Can we please get this undeleted? The page is now redirected to a Beatles song, which is just incorrect. The original page was deleted. At the RFD debate, it was claimed it didn't meet WP:MUSIC. This is untrue, however, the band has "gone on ... a national concert tour in at least one large or medium-sized country", that country being the US (see hellogoodbye's site [1]), and has been "prominently featured in any major music media" (receiving plenty of press coverage including [Alternative Press [2] and their video on MTV). Whatsmore, there are over 300,000 hits on Google and they are signed to a major label (Drivethru Records). Additionally, they've only released an EP and a DVD: not quite the 2 albums suggested, but not far off. Halo 12:59, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

No opinion from me. —Cryptic (talk) 05:33, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and Cleanup OK, I suppose they have had or are having a "national tour". It's not the Rolling Thunder Revue, though, is it? Problem is -- and this is really getting to irritate me about D-list band articles -- is that there's almost nothing in the article that can be used to make a real article. "All merchandise designs, and even t-shirt screen printing is done by Hellogoodbye"... what a freaken joke. That means somebody is going to have to dig through the seamy underside of American culture and find this stuff out. The band wants the article but they're not willing to do the work. Herostratus 06:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment - Just want it to be noted that I have no relation to the band at all - I just know of the band and think they deserve an article. It should be noticed they're doing a PROPER national tour: when they are touring with 3 other notable bands as part of the Xbox 360 tour. Halo 13:35, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as non-notable band. Criteria is a guideline, and while this band may just squeak through I doubt anyone is interested enough to read an article the band itself isn't interested in writing. Ifnord 06:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Have an EP and DVD out on a significant label and there is a great deal of verifiable material on them on Google News see [3] and will be touring the US early in 2006 with Panic! at the Disco see [4]. They seem notable enough for mine at the moment. Capitalistroadster 06:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Have heard of this band before, and they seem to have a growing following. --Impaciente 08:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete --SockpuppetSamuelson 10:04, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets requirements. Turnstep 18:54, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; WP:MUSIC has been very good in simplifying AfDs of bands. I could not care less of having an article on this band on the wikipedia: my opinion is just to follow the policy. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 19:17, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - if for no other reason than original vote was actually 1 keep, 1 delete, yet it was *very incorrectly* deleted! Zordrac 00:24, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• keep please this should not have been erased Yuckfoo 03:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - if my statements earlier didn't imply it. I came to check the Wikipedia page about the band, and IMO they are notable. I've also had a go at cleaning up the page. Halo 13:15, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - meets requirements for notability of bands, especially for their being featured on several half-hour MTV programs, as The Real World, Dew Circuit Breakout, etc., as well as being one of the Top 10 bands on PureVolume. HarryCane 19:16, 2 December 2005 (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.