Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Downings

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 delete. Jenks24 (talk) 06:27, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Downings[edit]

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The entry in your database about the gospel music group, The Downings, is written in an extremely skewed manner placing the author's personal preferences and tastes ahead of the facts. The article is full of errors... facts, grammar, typos, etc. The tone of the article makes it sound like every time the group changed personnel there was some kind of major scandal and that the changes resulted in less than stellar success, which is not true. Amortias (T)(C) 17:40, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The article was probably written in good faith by an editor who is active on musical topics. Unsourced since its creation, however, and with many edits already WP:REVDEL'd it reads like a personal reflection or op-ed and Original Research and is clearly full of conjecture and author's own point of view. The problems are possibly fixable, but the effort in doing so dwarfs the effort involved in merely starting over (WP:TNT) especially considering that this is after all a BLP and must be held to high standards of sourcing. No objection to providing a copy of the article to the creator by email, but not even an unsourced draft should be permitted in any publicly accessible Wikupedia space. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:15, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - @Kudpung and Amortias: What would you make of these sources and can an article be made with them? My searches found some results here, here (from News), here and here. Recently, some gospel groups had been nominated for deletion and several of them had won the Dove Awards (which is apparently said to be non-notable). SwisterTwister talk 17:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 19:41, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95 (Talk) 13:33, 30 June 2015 (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.