Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Numbskulls

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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 00:30, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Numbskulls[edit]

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I can't find any reliable sources on this band's existence, let alone notability. All the references in here are dead ends. Google searches for the band and their albums only bring back Wikipedia and mirrors (if they were as influential as this page claims they were, surely there would be something else). Could even be a very detailed hoax. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 20:27, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 20:33, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 20:33, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: hmmm... supposedly influenced by the UK's Madchester scene of 1989-90, yet this band broke up three years before that in 1986, even before acid house had hit the headlines or the charts anywhere? I think this is a hoax as well. Or at the very least, an exaggerated promotional piece by a band member (the article creator is a SPA with the same surname as the guitarist, and states elsewhere that he is a band member [1]). Richard3120 (talk) 20:51, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I had a look over at WP:HOAXLIST and if page is a hoax, which is looking likely, it could be one of the longest lived ones in Wikipedia. This iteration of this page (excluding a previous nonsense page made and deleted two years prior) was created in July 2006. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 01:53, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a likely hoax (which is probably not blatant enough for CSD G3). As the above comment noted, things here simply don't add up. Rlin8 (☎·✎·📧) 23:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I think this band may have really existed under the name HyperzombieNumbSkulls, with "Numbskulls" as a short nickname. There are several other bands in various countries and decades also called the Numbskulls, and I think a member of THIS band is trying to use sources dedicated to those other bands as proof of media notice. Here is some interesting archeology: see the comment from January 2010 at Talk:Lists of punk bands (#17 in the Contents). In any case, if they really did exist the sheer lack of sources indicates that they were hardly influential, and if the article is not a hoax then it is a vanity project by a 50-something former punk trying to show his grandkids that he was cool back in '83. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 14:08, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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