Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Titus (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 Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-08 21:57Z

[edit] Titus (band)

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Non-notable band, the fact that the "official website" is their Myspace page is a dead giveaway... Candy-Panda 09:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Keep, they claim to have notability on the article. So you can't demand deletion on that basis. Use the fact they are using Myspace is a disturbingly weak argument. Myspace has had a huge uptake in the music industry and many many notable bands/musicians/etc use myspace as their site. Mathmo ^Talk 09:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Expand per Mathmo's reasons  Tuvok^^{Talk|Desk|Contribs}  10:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless reliable sources are found to demonstrate their notability. Claims of notability mean the article can't be speedily deleted, but they do need to be substantiated. FreplySpang 10:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Neutral - Striking my recommendation after Mathmo's comment below. There are various news stories at the link he mentioned, but I'm not sure whether they're Reliable Sources or not. It would probably improve the chances of keeping this article if someone would sort through these news stories and add links to one or two of the most reliable. FreplySpang 17:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per FreplySprang. MER-C 10:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment, did anybody check the links that are already on the article before voting?! (yeah, I'll admit to only looking at them afterwards. But still did it anyway to double check my first intial feelings about this, seems to be confirming it so far). Anyway, if you check one of them you see it contains an article about them along with links to a heap of news stories mentioning them. Sourcing for this article is looking strong so far. Mathmo ^Talk 10:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. The references establish notability but the band also satisfies WP:MUSIC criteria #4 as they have toured the UK as per the references cited by Mathmo. Ccscott 16:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per previous comments. (Myspace is often used by bands for promotion) - grubber 18:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Mathmo. Being on MySpace is not a deletion criterion. (Being sourced only to MySpace is, as it is not considered a reliable source.) --Dhartung | Talk 02:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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