Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lowrider (band)

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The result of the debate was keep. Ifnord 20:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lowrider (band)

Non-notable band, found it very difficult to verify notability with the given links and information. Obviously "lowrider" gets a lot of google hits for various reasons but 15 unique / 37 total for "lowrider sweden". Probably a band for specialist web lists rather than an encyclopedia, Delete ++Deiz 21:45, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Lowrider has released one significant album, that has made some impact, with allmusic.com stating that it was "alternately praised and condemned profusely by critics" [1] and "Lowrider was hailed by many as the new Kyuss" which is definitely a good reason imho to leave this article as a part of the entire Stoner metal complex, which itself is obviously significant enough for WP. See the 'press section' of the bands label to confirm that hey have had signifcant press coverage [2]. If you have wishes or comments on how the article should be improved, I will gladly contribute what I am able to. --Johnnyw 00:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Addition. Their split EP was a collaborative effort with Nebula, a band that was founded by 2 ex-members of Fu Manchu. --Johnnyw 00:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• No complaints here if they really are notable (WP:MUSIC), it's out of love for the genre that I'm cleaning up the category. Obviously Nebula and Fu Manchu are sweet but each band has to be judged on their own merits... Debate remains open, get stuck in J... ++Deiz 00:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as per Johnnyw. Allmusic bio and 148,000 Google hits for Lowrider Sweden makes them notable enough for mine see [3]. Capitalistroadster 01:30, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• Yeah I'm more than satisfied that this will now become a much better article (and the first to admit that I screwed up the google criteria a little, although "148,000" should be qualified with the news that a very large proportion of those hits are nothing to do with this subject), happy to retract the nomination ++Deiz 02:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• I'll gladly revamp the article this weekend.. --Johnnyw 10:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I've completed editing the article. Please feel free to comment if you have any further suggestions. I removed the AfD tag to speedy keep this article, I hope you approve. --Johnnyw 15:39, 5 February 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.