Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sky Eats Airplane

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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 02:36, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sky Eats Airplane

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Fails general requirements, or in the alternative, WP:BAND. Google discloses no multiple, non-trivial, independent, reliable references. Band most certainly exists; all I can see is Facebook/MySpace/YouTube, plus lyrics sites, directories and blogs. Of course, more than happy to be proven wrong. Shirt58 (talk) 08:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I have seen Sky Eats Airplane open for several large bands at big venue shows. I know that their singer left and they have maybe gone down in popularity, but I would not consider them a small band, I think they deserve a wikipedia page. That's just my personal opinion though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelkornek (talk • contribs) 14:47, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Band is notable. A few examples: Allmusic Entry, Sputnik Music. They're also charted and made 175 (I think) in Billboard. Referenced from this album article Sky_Eats_Airplane_(album)Keep. --Iron Chef (talk) 03:13, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. They charted, there's a little bit of coverage in possibly reliable sources, and they have three records with hmmm somewhat notable labels. It's all pretty thin, though, and having a stupid name doesn't help either. Drmies (talk) 01:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – I'm finding plenty of significant coverage in newspapers. The subject meets WP:BAND criterion #1. Examples include:
- Infante, Victor D. (April 22, 2010). "Up in the Sky", Telegram & Gazette, p. 9.
- Osegueda, Mike (June 12, 2009). "Coming in for a landing: Sky Eats Airplane to buzz Fresno for a third time", The Fresno Bee, p. 5.
- McGarrah, Marli Lee (July 16, 2008). "Talking to Sky Eats Airplane", The Buffalo News, p. N9.
  - and so on. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - But...but...don't you agree that the name sucks? Drmies (talk) 03:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - It's really not that bad. Not compared to some of the other indie band names out there. You've heard of that game where you can pretty much generate everything about an indie band (beside the music) right? :) --Iron Chef (talk) 22:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Well, I beg to differ. Everything that sounds like "Jimmy Eats World" is pretty dumb in my book. But that link, Iron Chef, that is priceless: I might try and use it in class today. (BTW, y'all go out to the stores and buy "Book. Don't Even Try" by Maray. We're so underground we don't even have a MySpace page, but we have an artsy cover.) Drmies (talk) 15:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Hee hee. My own indie band, The Uncle Devil Show, will be in some trouble because, believe it or not, a band by that name already exists! Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 16:50, 16 September 2010 (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.