Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Riding the short bus

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD✉ 23:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Riding the short bus

What's worse than a garage-band that hasn't "made it" yet? A a garage-band that hasn't even started up yet. Vain, vain, vain. Garrett^Talk 04:56, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

• Oh dear. Perhpas we may stretch the speedy A7 criteria? This is a group of people with no claim to notability, so it really isn't too different different from a person with no such claim, is it? Usually I'm opposed to speedy criteria for bands, as merely being in a band is some sort of assertion of notability, but this goes out of their way to make it perfectly clear that there is absolutely nothing notable about them. Delete, preferably speedily. -R. fiend 05:10, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • There was a proposal to add a speedy criterion for bands that didn't meet at least one of the WP:MUSIC criteria. It got about 68% yes votes and was held not to have achieved consensus. Therefore, A7 doenst' apply, I'm sad to say. DES 06:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Speedy criteria should NOT be stretched. Looking at the debate around the latest proposal, people have very strong feelings about this and many, if not most, expect the rules voted on to be followed strictly. Bear in mind that the margin by which A7 passed was not very large. A7 explicitly talks about articles about "a real person" and can thus not be used for articles on bands, books, intersections, fan fiction characters, high school debating clubs, user-created computer game maps, or pieces of furniture at the Hogwarts school of magic. Which might be unfortunate, but that's the way it is. But do join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C that tries to find a wording for a new proposal for extreme band vanity. Oh, and delete this. / Alarm 18:21, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Well said, Alarm. Yes, I removed the speedy tag as I thought vfd was the way to go. And yes I am also the vandal who removed the VfD tag :) (don't know what I was thinking, but I removed both the SD and VfD tags) so thanks to Cdc for restoring it. --Dmcdevit·t 23:35, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Band-foolery. I'd add speedy, but don't want to get in trouble from wiki-cops. They can be rough. Hamster Sandwich 05:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as above. DES 06:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity. Klonimus 06:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and even if it were, the band is extremely non-notable. Wikipedia is not a sign-up forum. — JIP | Talk 12:42, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Looks like these kiddies need to stay on the short bus.  ;) Thorns Among Our Leaves 20:33, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, speedily if possible. -- The Anome 22:41, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn vaporband vanity. Starting so early now... --Etacar11 23:36, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete: This is just kids calling themselves a company/posse/crew/clan/band -- normal stuff for kids to do -- but it's close to being nonsense, as they have 7 songs without music so far, just lyrics. Uhhh, so how, exactly, are they songs? Best not to think about it. Geogre 13:42, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn band vanity. JamesBurns 07:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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