Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The MelTones

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 06:39, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The MelTones[edit]

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Article about a band, relying entirely on a single primary source with no evidence of reliable source coverage about them locatable anywhere. The only claim of notability that might pass WP:NMUSIC, the use of their music in SpongeBob SquarePants, is one of the things that fails the verifability test: it's not supported by the MySpace profile that it's footnoted to, and the only "verification" I can find of the claim is a handful of YouTube clips of their songs set to still images of SpongeBob (which is hardly compelling evidence of the claim.) Further, the original creator's username corresponds to the name of the band's record label, so there's a direct conflict of interest here. As always, a band is not entitled to a Wikipedia article just because passage of an NMUSIC criterion has been claimed; it gets an article only when passage of an NMUSIC criterion can be reliably sourced. Bearcat (talk) 07:55, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: No significant coverage per WP:MUSIC. SL93 (talk) 01:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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