Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ble (band)

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 no consensus. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:03, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ble (band)[edit]

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This topic has nothing but primary hits in Google. I would expect a still-existing band to have more coverage than that if they were actually notable. Delete per the general notability guideline as lacking independent, secondary, reliable sourcing. Izno (talk) 15:22, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Izno (talk) 15:24, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. Izno (talk) 15:24, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 11:34, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep If you Google search the band name + one of the singers, you can find plenty of articles about them. By the way, this AfD appears to have been miscategorised: what's it doing in Fiction and the Arts? It should be Media and Music. Bondegezou (talk) 15:44, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I performed the exact suggestion and found nothing, so, please provide a source (several, in fact, to prove notability) for an article under this topic instead of a vague handwave to Google. For example, I found this source by using the artist's name, but the phrase "Ble" does not appear there. (Instead, "Mple" does.) However, this source does not treat the topic with any significance, so it is not suitable to prove notability under the WP:GNG.

You are always welcome to add a categorization. --Izno (talk) 17:30, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed the category. --Izno (talk) 01:52, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There's stuff like [1] and coverage through articles more on Tsatsou, like [2] and [3]. Bondegezou (talk) 14:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Using the Greek names, I get far more results, such as this which may be useful if the machine translation from Google is indeed accurate. The article as is asserts that the band charted on the Greek charts, but most of those have not been archived so it's impossible to tell. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:01, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Ι remember that the first two tacks ("Νοιώθω ενοχές" & "Φοβάμαι") form their 1996 debut album Φοβάμαι were hits in those days; the songs got a lot of airplay. Moreover, the band's singer Theodosia Tsatsou made great impression to the public with her appearance on stage (see: Νάντια Δενελάβα, "Μπλε" [in Greek], Music Corner.gr), and rose to stardom overnight. In the band's website it is stated (in Greek) that the album went gold, and then platinum; this is not of course an independent, third party source, but the statement must be true. It is also true that soon Th. Tsatou left the band, and Ble/Mple didn't repeat their initial success; their course was somehow meteoric, Ι think. ——Chalk19 (talk) 08:50, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:25, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 11:52, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom + band has little to no notable events nor songs. Redditaddict6 9 12:57, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This has been relisted a couple times. I wanted to leave this comment, which was left on my talk page by TPH, in case someone who wants to find coverage has the time to do so so that we can wrap this AFD up (since I have not gotten around to it--The International 2018 was last week and I was busy not doing anything but watching Dota 2):
"Ble" appears to be a mis-transliteration from the Greek. Searching for "Γιώργος Παπαποστόλου" "ΜΠΛΕ" gives me far more Google results, some of which may confirm notability. See what you can make of it. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:28, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
--Izno (talk) 15:14, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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