Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rare Futures

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The result was delete. – Joe (talk) 12:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rare Futures

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NN musical group failing all 12 elements of WP:BAND. One could argue that there are few obscure pubs that could possibly be interpreted as passing #1 or GNG, but at the end of the day, you've got 4 no-name musicians without a notable label, self-releasing recordings on their own website. Toddst1 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep as has rs coverage such as Daily Nebraskan and Punk News. Think Dreams of Water, their album, may have charted but will check up on that. For searching note that they changed their name from the original Happy Body Slow Brain. Atlantic306 (talk) 20:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Changed to weak keep as could not find any evidence of charting, at least in the U.S., unlikely to be charting elsewhere Atlantic306 (talk) 17:27, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note re: The Daily Nebraskan. It is not sourced to that publication, but to, rather, The Dailyer Nebraskan, which is a university publication. School papers are not good sources for notability. ShelbyMarion (talk) 18:19, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Appears to fail WP:BAND; searching for band (under old or new name) did not yield reliable sources, just press releases or online music sites/blogs (I don't think stuff like punknews.org is a reliable source but there's not even much of that available). Unknown bands with self-published albums lack encyclopedic notability. Shelbystripes (talk) 22:54, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Punknews is a reliable source as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources Atlantic306 (talk) 17:27, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Happy New Year!!! ^{Babymissfortune} 02:01, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Happy New Year!!! ^{Babymissfortune} 02:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agree with Shelbystripes. (BTW, we are NOT the same person; because of our similar user names about a year ago someone mistook me for this editor). Re: Punknews, yes it is a reliable source for the punk scene, but not all coverage therein is significant. In this case, it is merely a list of performance dates. The coverage I found is small time/trivial and merely confirms existence rather than significant coverage. ShelbyMarion (talk) 18:11, 5 January 2018 (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.