Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solstice Coil

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 of the debate was delete. Metamagician3000 14:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Solstice Coil

Nonnotable unsigned band (though I like the name of their self-produced album) NawlinWiki 01:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment The band may meet this WP:BAND requirement: Has been featured in multiple non-trivial published works in reliable and reputable media (excludes things like school newspapers, personal blogs, etc...)., per this statement: "The album received positive reviews from various magazines, printed and online. It was named album of the month on the German site Babyblaue and the Brazilian site "Progressive Rock and Progressive Metal E-Zine" for December, 2005. ". Adambiswanger1 01:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete First of all, this article is just a blatant advertisement. With that said, I agree with Adam's assessment of WP:MUSIC per above; however, there's no assertion that the magazines in which the band was mentioned are notable. "progressive rock and progressive metal e-zine" gets only 11 total Google hits; "babyblaue" gets 207,000, which is a huge number, except that only THIRTY of these are unique hits. Combined with the fact that neither of these sites have WP articles (babyblaue doesn't have a page on the German WP, either), I'm convinced that these web sites/magazines are completely trivial. There are no other claims of notability for the band (aside from saying how amazing and original they are). For full disclosure, "Solstice Coil" does get 18,100 total and 263 unique Google hits, but I doubt there's even room for expansion in this article to make it pass WP:MUSIC. -- Kicking222 02:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment babyblaue-seiten.de seems to be a repository of online reviews that sprung from a mail list. It doesn't look all bad but if that's the best you can offer in your favor then chances are you got both feet stuck in the muck of non-notability. ~ trialsanderrors 03:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

  Add German wiki entry ~ trialsanderrors 03:26, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, but it's a close call. They're certainly not famous but the author did a good job of showing it was more than just an ad. But the mentions fail to meet the "multiple non-trivial published works in reliable and reputable media" criterion. Maybe in another year? Interlingua 03:46, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, barely fails WP:BAND. --Coredesat 04:05, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I did some editing and removed the advertisement. They are fairly known within the Israeli alternative\progressive community. Especially since that time where they did Radiohead covers. Their site mentiones more press sources, including ynet.co.il - one of Israel's largest online news sites , "In the Camp" - Israel's defense forces weekly paper and some other, mostly non Israeli mentiones in prog-rock oriented media. Passes WP:BAND, but barely.

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.