Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How I Became The Bomb

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 Delete per consensus. — Deckiller 11:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How I Became The Bomb

Local band. The few google hits make this pretty obvious. A few local reviews and a local music festival, not much else. Fails WP:MUSIC My vote is Delete Dipics 11:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, >1,000 Google hits is not always an accurate notability indicator. They satisfy WP:MUSIC criteria 5 - "Have been featured in multiple non-trivial published works in reliable and reputable media". Kimchi.sg 14:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Note I should have worded my "google" remark more carefully. While I do feel that having few google hits is a reliable indicator for a group that aspires to be a popular band, my reference was to what the hits were saying. As was noted elsewhere, a very few local reviews. Local band in a local paper is not notable in my opinion. Dipics 16:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - two lousy news google hits, both out of random Nashville papers says not notable - plus, it reads like an ad, which makes me angry. WilyD 14:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets notability requirements. WilyD, if you're angry, re-write the article! :p Parsssseltongue 18:24, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Looking at the Google hits from this band, it is obvious to me that they are just a small-time local band. They have had a couple of write-ups in local newspapers but local newspapers are often charitable to local bands. A few local gigs, a local festival. Nothing outside their immediate area that I can find at all. No more notable than any other band that has had a few gigs. Beaner1 18:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
  • comment - Touring is NOT the ONLY criteria for notability. They have received notable press coverage, are playing a major event (Athens Music Festival) which is NOT a "local gig," and to dust off the dreaded Google count... 817 hits. Wiki guidelines say a few hundred are probably good enough. Parsssseltongue 18:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
  • comment I waded through quite a few of the google hits. Nashville, like Austin down here in TX, has quite good media coverage of the local music scene. If you play any local gigs, it is going to be covered in quite a few local publications and no small number of "local scene" blogs. While this gives a large number of hits, if you read the hits, they tend to read like #5 on the How I Became the Bomb google hit list "did a photo shoot yesterday for the local band How I Became the Bomb." The words local band seem to run through the vast majority of the write ups. Since they (local media and blogs) cover pretty much all bands that get local gigs, this is not even an indicator of local notability. And, if you mean by "Athens Music Festival" you mean the Athens Popfest, this festival is specifically designed to be "all about the little guy" (from the website "Deerhoof, Mountain Goats, Oh-Ok Head Athens Popfest", Pitchfork, 31 May 2006. Retrieved on 2006-06-28.  ) Having read several dozen of the google hits, I would still keep my vote the same. Dipics 21:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom Artw 22:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Seems to be local band only, with only local touring and reviews. --Joelmills 02:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Beaner1 and Joelmills. --Starionwolf 04:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems to satisfy notability requirements. Dsreyn 13:02, 29 June 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.