Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Ocean Blue

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. DS 17:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Ocean Blue

Non notable and not NPOV. Not a single CD of theirs is listed in Wikipedia, and whoever wrote it seems to have a bit too much information to be a third party. Meteshjj 23:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Agreed as per nom. --manchesterstudent 00:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and I strongly advocate it. The Ocean Blue had many sizable radio hits and, I bet, were I to check Billboard Modern Rock charts, I would be able to tell you that their singles charted high. "Cerulean" is a classic, and though I may be biased in this vote as I enjoy their music, they are extremely notable for having several well-played singles. GassyGuy 00:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I had to go ahead and break out a reference. All of these figures are peaks of their songs on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart:
    • "Between Something and Nothing" #2
    • "Drifting, Falling" #10
    • "Cerulean" #16
    • "Ballerina Out of Control" #3
    • "Mercury" #27
    • "Sublime" #3 ...... GassyGuy 00:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment Hey gang, sorry about all this, but I'm new to the rules of Wikipedia. I wrote the expanded text entry for 'The Ocean Blue' over the past few days. I am indeed a third party and just a die-hard fan and collector for the past 16 years. I've met the band once about a decade ago, but always keep up on their current goings on. It wasnt until after I wrote the Wikipedia entry this weekend, that I realized that I was writing in the form of a 'biography', when I SHOULD have been writing in the form of a true 'encyclopedic' entry. I will gladly clean up this entry to make sure that opinion, conjecture and bias are removed. I just wanted to try my best to write a solid, fact-filled submittal. Please feel free to help me correct any errors or Wikipedia rules that I may have broken. Everything I've written I can backup with hard-copy from my collection, but since much of the band's hey-day was 'pre-internet', its tough to cite facts with an online link. In addition, the bands website features an email, so I'm sure the group can clear up and confirm any questions of accuracy. Thanks folks, MAPAZ. MAPAZ 01:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. NPOV is a basis for a maintenance tag, not deletion. Multiple studio albums listed in article (plus singles etc. listed) is prima facie indicia of notability and should be an invitation for investigation before nominating for Afd. A look at allmusic substantiates notability, as does amazon [1]. --Fuhghettaboutit 01:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per WP:MUSIC. Three albums released on Sire Records and one on Mercury records meets our album requirements. Modern rock hits meet the chart requirements. Allmusic.com has an article on them see [2] I added some sections as it is a long article without a break. Capitalistroadster 01:40, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep per information that's just been brought to our attention. Also, let's please not consider something not having an article on Wikipedia as an indication of not being relevant, since it's far from a complete database. fuzzy510 02:11, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster and GassyGuy. ---Charles 04:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, definitely meets WP:MUSIC and a biased article/content dispute isn't grounds for deletion. - Motor (talk) 07:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. -- Kukini 16:20, 5 June 2006 (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.