Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MegaDriver

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:48, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MegaDriver[edit]

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Non-notable video-game cover band. Search turned up mostly de rigueur music streaming pages and unrelated computing sites among the sporadic gaming blog interview. Article has been around for almost a decade and has remained unsourced, with external links being magazine scans posted on the band's website. sixtynine ^{• speak up •} 18:57, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:58, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:58, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Brazil-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:58, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mkdw ^talk 17:47, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:47, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it seems to have some coverage: [1] from Destructoid and [2] from GamesRadar. But it's tough to find something other than "hey, check out this band that does VG covers". NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:34, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the extant web coverage is weak—little depth from that alone. But there are several magazine publications in Portuguese from our current article, though they are hosted on the band's website and for one of us to verify. The classic issue is "AfD is not cleanup": whether the offline Portuguese articles will realistically ever make it into the page. As typical for these discussions, the page will continue unsourced and inaccessible, and we will be left with garbage English-language coverage. Can we write a short article with the Portuguese magazine sources and the weak English-language coverage? Possibly. But I would sooner look to a list of video game culture musicians to hold those sources rather than leaving this to rot on its own. czar 19:35, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. While I agree with Czar that it's possible to write an article using the offline sources, these would be difficult to verify and even then it would be a pretty thin article. I like the suggestion of VG culture musicians too, if enough sources could be found. But for these guys, I don't think we have enough. — sparklism ^hey! 11:53, 6 January 2017 (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.