Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melsondorph the Powerful

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 01:29, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Melsondorph the Powerful

Non-notable band. 13 Google hits, allmusic and artistdirect never heard of them. RickK 23:49, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as ūber vanity. Why couldn't this individual put this much thought in a real page? Go figure. - Lucky 6.9 00:41, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Tell the truth, Rick. 60 Google hits, including a newspaper article from a major newspaper, art festival entries, and samples on soundclick. And, hey, Lucky, why don't you take a look at my actual work before saying that I haven't put anything into a "real page." Rick, you seem to bear a neat little grudge against me ever since the Bart McQueary page. Hmmm. I wonder. — (Unsigned comment by 70.241.23.115.)
  • You might want to learn how to use Google. 60 hits is for every occurrence of the phrase on every page it's on. 13 is the count of the unique pages in which the phrase appears. RickK 20:26, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not meet any one notability criterion at WP:MUSIC. (BTW, I get 45 Google hits for the exact phrase "melsondorph the powerful". Some search options will alter the total number. Arguing about 13 vs. 60 vs. whatever is pointless; it's a very low number of hits, no matter how you slice it.) android↔talk 01:37, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• It meets the requirement for #6-- it is the premiere representative of the Tulsa and Oklahoma City grindcore/noise music scenes. I respectfully request that you remove your delete vote based on that criteria.
  • From WP:MUSIC: Has become the most prominent representative of a notable style or the local scene of a city (or both, as in British hip hop); note that the subject must still meet all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability. Since the album/style is described in this article as comedy and not grindcore/noise music, I find it hard to believe that any such scene exists. In fact, Google for "melsondorph the powerful" grindcore yields 0 hits. android↔talk 03:12, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Verifiability? You verified it yourself-- there's a newspaper article about it! We can have a Wiki page for Bart McQueary, who few people outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, have heard about, just because he sucks up to Fred Phelps, yet a band that has performed at festivals in such large cities as Tulsa and Oklahoma City is ineligible? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Another unsigned comment by 70.241.23.115
  • I verified its existence but could not find any verifiable evidence that it meets WP:MUSIC criterion 6 as you have stated. Please sign your posts with ~~~~. android↔talk 11:19, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, doesn't meet WP:MUSIC Slac speak up! 03:31, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 05:18, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Fails WP:MUSIC. Zzyzx11 | Talk 06:12, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• By the way, what makes something like Grand Theftendo eligible but not this group? They have newspaper articles. They have albums. Just because people at Wiki haven't heard of them, that makes them ineligible? Isn't that a bit counter-productive? People come to an encyclopedia to learn new things, not things they already know. Another unsigned comment by 70.241.23.115
  • Then please give us more evidence about Melsondorph the Powerful that satisfies the criteria laid out in WP:MUSIC. Thanks. Zzyzx11 | Talk 06:20, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable. Megan1967 07:24, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Very questionable on #6 of WP:MUSIC and non-qualifying on all of the others. A Man In Black 11:15, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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