Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richmond Hill (band)

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 was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richmond Hill (band)

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The article does not assert notability per the guidelines in WP:MUSIC. Nv8200p talk 23:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• I don't see why this article would be deleted. The band has been on several large scale tours, won a major national contest, and is scheduled to record at one of the best studios in the country as a result (West49/Much Music Battle Of The Bands: http://megawattstudios.com/ the studio has recorded canadian bands Sloan, The Trews, etc etc) and they even played the Canadian Open Skateboarding kick off party ( http://www.west49music.com/news.jsp?newsId=3114 or http://www.punknews.org/article/19726 ). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.224.249.72 (talk) 13:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 00:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - No assertion of notability, fails WP:MUSIC. I live in Nova Scotia and have not heard about this band. --Bryson 01:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - They have no albums out and are unsigned; checking Google finds very few hits about them. They might technically qualify under WP:Band for having toured and having won an award, but with so little buzz, I'm inclined to say let's wait for the album to come out, at least. Brianyoumans 01:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • WP:MUSIC says that their East Coast Music Awards performance and music competition win are notable enough. Please don't start making up your own rules. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No non-trivial (simply a notation of who's on the bill at a particular event is trivial coverage) independent secondary sources offered to establish notability. Mwelch 01:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • If the event happens to be a top billing (as in main band listing) in a country's biggest venue or musical festival, I tend to disagree with that. (Not that that's the case here). - Mgm|^(talk) 10:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
    • If a band is prominent enough to have top billing at the country's biggest venue or musical festival, I dare say there will be some secondary coverage of said band out there beyond only a simple listing of them as being billed at said festival. Mwelch 17:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, as per above. Ford MF 05:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - also fails WP:MOS, including WP:MOS#Contractions. --Spebi 06:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • {{sofixit}}. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep "performed at 2006 East Coast Music Awards" and winning a major music competition is enough claim of notability per WP:MUSIC. I'll dig up some sources if that's what it takes to save the article. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The article says they made an appearance at the show not that they won anything. -Nv8200p talk 12:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

They won the November 2005 MuchMusic/West 49 Battle of the Bands, and while both are very notable I have no idea how major the actual competition is since googling it returns this article. Also, I have had trouble finding independent reliable sources about the band. –Pomte 13:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

• Neutral: From WP:MUSIC: "Has won or placed in a major music competition." People are asserting here that performing in this "East Coast Music Awards" deal and winning this "Battle of the Bands" thing qualify. Could we have from someone knowledgeable some reason to believe that these are in fact "major" music competitions? There are a lot of blind assumptions flying about, the more so in that this is the band's sole claim to notability, so far. RGTraynor 20:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I don't count as neutral, but I did look at the West49 contest info, what I could find, and I thought it looked sort of lame. The contest consisted of a series of podcasts, where people were supposed to vote on the best band of each set, and then there was a champions podcast to pick the overall winner. The problem was, it looks like the contest was supposed to last a year, but ended up dragging on for about 2 years. And finding info about it on the web was not that easy; it doesn't seem to have gotten very much publicity. I can't really say how much publicity it got in Canada, not being in Canada myself, but it didn't look like a lot. And it hasn't gotten them signed. On the whole, it was certainly something, but I think it was decidedly less than a "major award". Brianyoumans 21:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Per WP:MUSIC and Wikipedia is not Myspace.  ~Steptrip 00:14, 31 March 2007 (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.