Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midnight Syndicate (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. - Mailer Diablo 02:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Midnight Syndicate

Previous afd (brought by article's author and immediately withdrawn): Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midnight Syndicate

Like Nox Arcana, this band's albums are all self-published, and the bulk of the article was posted by Vargo's webmaster. (See the history of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Vargo and Wikipedia:Deletion review for details.) Doesn't meet WP:MUSIC, and the article's origin brings up verifiability and original research problems as well. —Cryptic (talk) 05:11, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. From allmusic.com: "This particular album was a huge success on MP3.com, where it held six spots in their Top 20 positions during Halloween." They've been around a while, they seem to have some fans and a bunch of albums (even though self-published) They might not technically meet WP:MUSIC but that is a guidline. I think they are notable enough. Herostratus 07:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Herostratus and adjust WP:MUSIC to include huge successes on MP3.com Kappa 03:51, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Relisting this AfD discussion in hopes of generating a more thorough consensus. Please place new discussion below this line. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 14:44, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

• This does not look like an article about the band. Right now it reads like a vanity page for this Vargo guy. Delete unless made into a proper article. No need to adjust WP:MUSIC for rare cases. It's coverage in music press that (might) make this band encyclopedic, not their mp3.com success specifically. Friday (talk) 14:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. The band is fairly well known --- at least I'd heard of them well before seeing the Wikipedia article. Their albums are widely sold in the pop-up seasonal Hallowe'en costume and decoration stores that appear in October. Smerdis of Tlön 15:49, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per everyone else, especially note Kappa's recommendations. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 23:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per Kappa. --DDG 19:59, 8 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.