Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ivory Hours

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The result was delete. This is a WP:Soft delete; the article may be restored by any administrator upon request. MelanieN (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Article about a band with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC -- the strongest thing here is that they won a local radio station's "Next Big Thing" contest last year. Their music is all self-released on Bandcamp, so having three titles in their discography doesn't satisfy NMUSIC #5. And the sourcing here doesn't get them over WP:GNG, either: of the six references, three are primary sources (their own Bandcamp, their own EPK on CBC Music's "any band gets to repost their own EPK" section, and the website of the radio station that hosted the contest), one is a Q&A interview (which would be acceptable for confirmation of facts after GNG had already been met, but cannot be a bringer of GNG as it represents the band talking about itself), and one is a "local band wins radio station contest" article in their own hometown newspaper (again, acceptable for confirmation of facts after GNG has been passed but not contributing to GNG because of the "own hometown" problem.) Exclaim! (which the creator amusingly misspelled as Explaim) is the only source here that counts toward GNG, but one source cannot carry GNG all by itself if all the rest of the sourcing around it is bad. Delete as WP:TOOSOON, without prejudice against recreation in the future if their notability and sourceability improve. Bearcat (talk) 06:03, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 15:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 15:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete perhaps for now as it is currently questionable for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister talk 23:51, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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.