Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One Hand Clapping (band)

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The result was delete. Tone 08:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One Hand Clapping (band)[edit]

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Non-notable band. It was created by an IP in the pre-Seigenthaler Wikipedia, and the two attempts at nominating at VfD (as was) were reverted as "vandalism". How times have changed. I don't believe the article has ever had any sources in it in the near-13 years of its existence, and I can't find any. It doesn't help that there appears to be a 1974 documentary by Paul McCartney with the same name, but even that doesn't have much in the way of sources either. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 16:09, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:10, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:10, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND. Wow – as the nominator says, it's hard to believe this article has stayed on Wikipedia for 13 years. Literally just one single (which didn't chart), and nothing else. It also looks like the single was the only release on the Curve of the Earth label, and looking and pictures of the single's sleeve and label, it looks as though it might have been a self-designed and self-released record label. Guitarist Conrad Warre moved to the US and has his own band called Bees Deluxe, as well as running his own media and communications business [1], [2], [3]. Saxophonist brother Jason doesn't appear to have been a full-time member of The Way of the West, and in any case that band's entire output only amounted to five singles (only one of which made no. 54 in the UK; the rest didn't chart) before their record company shelved their debut album and they split up. But all this is by-the-by... I grew up in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s and I don't ever recall seeing anything about One Hand Clapping in the music press of the time, and I very much doubt we'll be able to find any in-depth sources now. Richard3120 (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:BAND. desmay (talk) 18:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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