Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Gak

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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). There are some merge votes, but they don't specify a target. Therefore, I will just call this one an outright keep. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Gak

A band who only played one show and that was at a party? Sounds like a glorified jam session - clearly non-notable, despite the obvious notability of participants XmarkX 05:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as per nominator. -mysekurity 05:56, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. nn, an improvised band that existed for a few hours. --TheMidnighters 08:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable jam. JamesBurns 09:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I don't see this as a band page at all, and once again I feel I need to ask JamesBurns: what is your threshold for a notable jam? A major event with unarguable super-stars of corporate rock isn't notable? Pray, what is? Elvis returning from the dead to jam with the Statue of Liberty?!

This event was clearly an item for the rock-n-roll history books even if you don't like these performers (as I do not). -Harmil 12:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

That wouldnt be notable - it wouldnt be true. Everyone knows that Elvis is alive and working at my local burger franchise, so he couldnt possibly be dead. JamesBurns 06:07, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Everything celebrities do is not inherently worthy of an encyclopedia article, and I just don't see the possibility of expanding this to be a real article. The info can be added to the real bands/performers articles under "trivia." Soundguy99 14:45, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Soundguy99. Dcarrano 14:55, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge somewhere or keep, notable incident. Kappa 15:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, absolutely a stick-on keeper jamesgibbon 15:01, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. "the gak" hetfield gets only 5 hits, including WP mirrors. The jam may be notable somewhere (probably a la Soundguy99), but this name seems to be a non-notable neologism. Niteowlneils 15:30, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Only one show? --Carnildo 20:05, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Extremely notable band members. Pburka 23:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Merge one night that doesn't need it's own article. --Etacar11 00:46, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:MUSIC. Radiant_>|< 13:38, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete no evidence for continued existance of this band. Yes, members are notable, but this doesn't make everything they do automatically notable. Friday 14:09, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Easily passes WP:MUSIC]. Since we cannot merge and redirect to each notable member, it should be kept as small article. A small article such as this can be mentioned in each participant's page. This is an example of where a "perfect article" in Wikipedia would necessarily be very small. Unfocused 15:41, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or Merge somewhere. Despite the notability of the participants, event doesn't warrant its own article. carmeld1 00:02, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:MUSIC.  Grue  19:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

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