Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Soundhog

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Vanity. Most google hits are our mirrors. →Raul654 05:48, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

  • Vanity / self-promo. We seem to be getting a lot of these lately. Delete. SWAdair | Talk 07:15, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, seems to be a real band. Is "most google hits are our mirrors" a valid objection? If so I have an article I aught to list here. Sam [Spade] 07:24, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • "Most google hits are our mirrors" isn't an objection, it's used as evidence of non-notability. The tone of this article makes me suspect vanity, or at very least a rabid fan posting about a little-known band. Isomorphic 07:44, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Um, no - if you Google on "soundhog bootleg", you get quite a bit that isn't us. Looking through those sites, he seems to have some attention within the scene, including in languages other than English. We'd need someone more familiar with the scene in question, but I see no reason not to keep for now - David Gerard 11:54, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Abstain: The article was on CU for about a week. It seems that the person is real and notable within that scene. The question, to me, is whether that creates sufficient notability, especially when what this person does is to take other songs and spin them in a particular way. This gets us dangerously close to having an article on every way kewel club DJ who can rip a CD. Outside of confirming the DJ activity, it gets impossible to document anything else: place in community, influence, history, favored techniques, etc. Geogre 13:22, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: promo, no evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 01:06, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: a few people in "the scene" have heard of him, doesn't make him notable. There's thousands of small-time alternative musicians, should an encyclopedia have articles for all of them? It's crazy. Brendanfox 11:22, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Too damn many forgettable bands. Did the 1911 Britannica have an entry for every organ grinder and every organ grinder's monkey in Greater London?orthogonal 22:54, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Eh? What happened to this article? "Soundhog" gets more non-Wikipedian hits (3460) on Google than "Go Home Productions" (2740), who has been feted by The Village Voice, and who is currently David Bowie's producer du jour. It gets a couple of thousand more hits than "Miss Kitty Fantastico" (959) and "Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet" (1170), whose deletion no-one has lobbied for. The Bastard Pop scene has been courted by Madonna, Kylie, and The Sex Pistols; it has produced a number one single in the UK, and an industry-shaking album in the US. Deleting this article on one of the genre's few signed artists, and one of its most critically acclaimed, was a provincial mistake. chocolateboy 04:25, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)