Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Independent Music Awards

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Independent Music Awards[edit]

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These awards, despite a long history, do not seem to be notable. A Google search gives quite a few passing mentions of the "X also won an Independent Music Award" (with some false positives thrown in), but no significant coverage of the awards themselves. The best I found is this rehashed press release. There's so little content beyond lists of winners and judges that I can't even tell if there's an award ceremony, and no sources available to improve the article. Huon (talk) 18:44, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. First 3 pages of Google results included [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Multiple reliable sources from multiple countries covering the awards means they're notable. --Michig (talk) 07:57, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Michig, I'm pretty sure the AIM Independent Music Awards that currently are covered in the Association of Independent Music article are not the same as the ones sponsored by Music Resource Group - those five Google hits are some of the false positives I mentioned. Huon (talk) 16:55, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Fair enough. MRG IMAs != AIM IMAs. !vote struck. --Michig (talk) 17:02, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:18, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:18, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:39, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 03:09, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, postdlf (talk) 13:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:PROMO; the article exists solely to promote the subject. Notability is very suspect as the article states: "...created in 1999 by Music Resource Group (MRG)". This is a recent, possibly entirely PR driven award, created by an entity which is itself non notable. The content of the article is equally unconvincing. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:21, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There's little to no third party sources about this award and there is no indication that it is notable. The content is possibly a duplicate of the website as well, so WP:NOTSTATS applies here. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:31, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I actually was about to vote keep based on this, before I realised that the source was actually about "AIM Independent music awards" which is a different award. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:31, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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