User talk:The Gnome
Hi there
I think you were one of the editors that deleted my article. If you look at the talk page, I made several suggestions around notability, but I received no response. I also happened to see other entries still on Wikipedia from other bands which don't remotely meet the notability criteria e.g. https://en.m.wiki.x.io/wiki/The_Go-Katz
Pink Peg Slax recorded sessions for BBC national radio and appeared on C4's The Tube. Surely this meets notability? I can provide the music press references, but I got no reply. I also tried to contact the other deletion editor, but without success.
Regards
User SelfPityingStan (talk) 15:51, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- Greetings, SelfPityingStan. To be precise, I participated in the AfD discussion that ended up with an admin decision to delete that text. The over-riding guideline is WP:GNG, where we read: "A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Emphasis added. I checked once again to find the significant number of reliable sources required to support the subject's notability. (Note that, for whatever it's worth, I happen to be a music aficionado, with a large collection of recorded music, and follow almost all kinds of music, with a special fondness for the marginal and the obscure in music.) I found nothing more than what I'd found in the original search in which I engaged in order to form my opinion in the AfD. Therefore, I'm afraid I cannot but repeat what I wrote then:
Wikipedia is explicitly not a directory of music.
When looking for musical acts such as Pink Peg Slax, I'll look elsewhere; not here. Take care. -The Gnome (talk) 15:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)- The Nervous Fellas Yet this article has been on Wikipedia since 2012 and is also devoid of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."
- In fact, there are multiple articles on rockabilly bands with even less significant coverage. It's inconsistent to delete Pink Peg Slax and leave these. I wonder why the article on Pink Peg Slax got special treatment. SelfPityingStan (talk) 11:14, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- You might want to take a look at the policy about similar "bad stuff" in Wikipedia. If there are also other articles about subjects devoid of Wikinotability, i.e. notability as defined by Wikipedia, then the way forward is act up on them too, and certainly not creating more such articles or allowing them to stay up. -The Gnome (talk) 11:35, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
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