Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dartmouth rock

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 delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dartmouth rock

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Article about a "genre" of music which isn't really a genre -- the only commonality here is that a bunch of rock musicians happen to live in the same community, without actually belonging to any distinctly Dartmouthian genre of music defined by where they happen to live. And the sources here aren't supporting that "Dartmouth rock" is an actual thing, either -- all any of them support is the purely geographic statement that the subject of that source lives in Dartmouth, and none of them say anything about their subject (or any of the others) belonging to a shared "genre" distinct from standard Canadian indie rock. ("Influenced by Myles Goodwin of April Wine"? Great, that makes you different from every other power pop band across Canada how, exactly?) This simply is not a real thing. Bearcat (talk) 19:02, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. startTerminal (haha wow talk page | startTerminal on irc) 01:09, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:37, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

delete book hits are for a hazard to navigation; web hits seem to be msotly of a specific a capella chrous. Mangoe (talk) 13:40, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: fails WP:GNG. As the nominator says, this supposed music genre doesn't actually exist, and nowhere is the term "Dartmouth rock" used in any article online. All we have is simply a number of musicians whose common link is that they are from Dartmouth... none of the sources make any attempt to link them to a local scene, or put a name to that scene, or that the said artists even know each other. The article was created by Colin Hines, who not only cites himself as one of the four sources, but also has his own blog promoting the local music scene. Richard3120 (talk) 22:08, 16 April 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.