Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jemo (band)

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The result was delete. MER-C 08:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jemo (band)

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Delete. Poorly sourced article about a band with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. The article claims that "the album reached heavy rotation on American and Canadian College Radio stations in 2001, and received critical acclaim from radio and print in North America as well as Europe and Australia", but fails to provide any reliably sourced evidence that any of that is true — and on a ProQuest search, the only hit I get for their name at all is a concert listing for them playing Toronto's Free Times Café in 2001...which is right when the album was reportedly rising on college radio, except I live in Toronto and it's not a "rising stars of college radio" sort of venue. (If you're looking for klezmer, though, then there's your nirvana.) And for sourcing present in the article, what we have to show is blogs right across the board — of which the only halfway reliable one is Torontoist, wherein we learn that they got double-booked at a bar in Fredericton with an AC/DC cover band in 2006: again, not a thing that happens to "stars of college radio", because even Fredericton has a "notable indie bands" bar that isn't the same place as the "AC/DC cover bands" bar. As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which any band is entitled to an article just because they exist(ed) — reliable source coverage, properly supporting a claim of notability that passes WP:NMUSIC, must be present for an article to become earned. Bearcat (talk) 01:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:44, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:44, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:41, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - nothing indicates that WP:BAND criteria are met.--Rpclod (talk) 00:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I'm unable to find sufficient coverage to satisfy WP:GNG, WP:BAND. Gongshow talk 07:23, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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