Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Idol Fret

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 12:06, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Idol Fret[edit]

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Unsourced, seems to fail WP:MUSICBIO. I can't find any significant coverage of this band online. Since they were active in the 70s/80s, it's possible that coverage exists in print, but given that they were "mostly known for playing in clubs and pubs around the east of Manchester, Rochdale and Oldham", it's unlikely that it would amount to more than some routine local coverage. Lennart97 (talk) 10:16, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Lennart97 (talk) 10:16, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Lennart97 (talk) 10:16, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND. I can't find any print coverage of them, and I doubt anything more than local coverage exists, given that they were in existence for almost a decade and only released one 7" single on a small independent label in all that time. The Deeply Vale Festival was a significant punk festival, but really only from 1978 onwards, after the band had appeared there – the 1976 festival only had around 300 attendees, and the 1977 festival around 2000, and Idle Fret don't appear on the advertising for either festival, suggesting that they were way down the bill. Apart from a succession of IPs, the only other major contributor to the article appears to be "UKJas" – it may be coincidence that the catalogue number of that one single was JAS1, and they are probably the initials of the band's founder John Simpson, but it does smack of autobiography. Richard3120 (talk) 13:39, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Richard3120. This may have been "acceptable in the 00s" on Wikipedia, but not now. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:40, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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