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why do we need this page here if this:
Has anyone heard of The Dudes? A Calgary rock band. Someone add them
What about Eye Eye, or Zon? And I thought Neil Young was a person ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.154.79.134 ( talk) 02:13, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I dont think I'm exagerating when I say that a large portion of this list includes non-notable student bands who only have Wikipedia pages because most people don't care enough to delete them, even though Wikipedia discourages pages about student bands. But, is it time to go through this list and do some clean up? About 1/10th of the list is either links that go to other things or non-notable bands. I'd almost say that the list itself isn't needed because there is a Canadian bands category. -- Scorpion 01:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I believe the following should nominate many of them for deletion. Most pages only have short bios, band members, and albums and a small list of local accomplishments. They all have very few pages that link to them. For example, The Pants Situation. Only this page links to it.
These are the groups from Alberta alone that appear to be non-notable:
And those are just the groups from Alberta. -- Scorpion 02:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Recent edits removed the solo artists who were on this list, in keeping with the article title. This raises an issue: We have a list of Canadian bands by location, and we have a List of Canadian musicians which is bands and solo artists listed alphabetically, but I could not find a list with solo artists arranged by location. If that does not exist, one proposal would be to have a new list (i.e., Canadian solo artists by location). Another would be to alter this list so that it would be for both bands and solo artists. Any thoughts? -- Paul Erik 01:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
A few ideas: Perhaps the description at the top could specify if the location is to indicate where the band got their start, or where they are currently based. Or we could note that it could be either, and in that case it may be okay to have a few of them listed in two different locations. (5 is too many! You are right.) Also, I would be glad to keep an eye on the list to help make sure that when a new entry is added, the band is not already listed somewhere else on the list. Anyway, as you can tell, my preference is to keep this as a list by location if at all possible, because I think an alphabetic list is less useful. -- Paul Erik 01:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, I suppose I could do a variation of what I initially proposed and create a new list altogether, List of Canadian musicians by location, which could include both solo artists and bands... or any ideas for a better name? "musicians and bands"? Would other people find such a list useful/interesting or is it just me? -- Paul Erik 06:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Here's a sample of the kind of table I was thinking of. Since this is just a sample, I've chosen a few bands at random instead of doing anything comprehensive.
Name | Genre | Location | Years Active |
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AIDS Wolf | noise rock | Montreal | 2003 - present |
Cats Can Fly | New Wave | Toronto | 1982 - 1988 |
Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans | country | Edmonton | 1995 - present |
The Gandharvas | alternative rock | London | 1989 - 2000 |
Ox | indie rock, alternative country | Vancouver, Sudbury | 2003 - present |
Sloan | indie rock, power pop | Halifax, Toronto | 1991 - present |
My idea is that rather than a single table, we would do a separate table for each letter (or range of letters) so that one could continue to use the table of contents to reach specific letters rather than having to scroll through.
Thus, I submit this for questions:
— Bearcat 22:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Justin Biber doesn't belong here, and certainly not under J. Woogee ( talk) 03:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I added The Rabble to the list, because they have an entry in the published two-volume printed Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia (also on-line), and I put a reference with the link to the on-line encyclopedia. Nobody from that generation has created a wikipedia page about them yet. This was a classic 1960s to early 1970s band that worked out of Montreal and was well-known in central and eastern Canada at the time, with two albums and several singles. 77Mike77 ( talk) 00:59, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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why do we need this page here if this:
Has anyone heard of The Dudes? A Calgary rock band. Someone add them
What about Eye Eye, or Zon? And I thought Neil Young was a person ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.154.79.134 ( talk) 02:13, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I dont think I'm exagerating when I say that a large portion of this list includes non-notable student bands who only have Wikipedia pages because most people don't care enough to delete them, even though Wikipedia discourages pages about student bands. But, is it time to go through this list and do some clean up? About 1/10th of the list is either links that go to other things or non-notable bands. I'd almost say that the list itself isn't needed because there is a Canadian bands category. -- Scorpion 01:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I believe the following should nominate many of them for deletion. Most pages only have short bios, band members, and albums and a small list of local accomplishments. They all have very few pages that link to them. For example, The Pants Situation. Only this page links to it.
These are the groups from Alberta alone that appear to be non-notable:
And those are just the groups from Alberta. -- Scorpion 02:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Recent edits removed the solo artists who were on this list, in keeping with the article title. This raises an issue: We have a list of Canadian bands by location, and we have a List of Canadian musicians which is bands and solo artists listed alphabetically, but I could not find a list with solo artists arranged by location. If that does not exist, one proposal would be to have a new list (i.e., Canadian solo artists by location). Another would be to alter this list so that it would be for both bands and solo artists. Any thoughts? -- Paul Erik 01:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
A few ideas: Perhaps the description at the top could specify if the location is to indicate where the band got their start, or where they are currently based. Or we could note that it could be either, and in that case it may be okay to have a few of them listed in two different locations. (5 is too many! You are right.) Also, I would be glad to keep an eye on the list to help make sure that when a new entry is added, the band is not already listed somewhere else on the list. Anyway, as you can tell, my preference is to keep this as a list by location if at all possible, because I think an alphabetic list is less useful. -- Paul Erik 01:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, I suppose I could do a variation of what I initially proposed and create a new list altogether, List of Canadian musicians by location, which could include both solo artists and bands... or any ideas for a better name? "musicians and bands"? Would other people find such a list useful/interesting or is it just me? -- Paul Erik 06:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Here's a sample of the kind of table I was thinking of. Since this is just a sample, I've chosen a few bands at random instead of doing anything comprehensive.
Name | Genre | Location | Years Active |
---|---|---|---|
AIDS Wolf | noise rock | Montreal | 2003 - present |
Cats Can Fly | New Wave | Toronto | 1982 - 1988 |
Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans | country | Edmonton | 1995 - present |
The Gandharvas | alternative rock | London | 1989 - 2000 |
Ox | indie rock, alternative country | Vancouver, Sudbury | 2003 - present |
Sloan | indie rock, power pop | Halifax, Toronto | 1991 - present |
My idea is that rather than a single table, we would do a separate table for each letter (or range of letters) so that one could continue to use the table of contents to reach specific letters rather than having to scroll through.
Thus, I submit this for questions:
— Bearcat 22:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Justin Biber doesn't belong here, and certainly not under J. Woogee ( talk) 03:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I added The Rabble to the list, because they have an entry in the published two-volume printed Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia (also on-line), and I put a reference with the link to the on-line encyclopedia. Nobody from that generation has created a wikipedia page about them yet. This was a classic 1960s to early 1970s band that worked out of Montreal and was well-known in central and eastern Canada at the time, with two albums and several singles. 77Mike77 ( talk) 00:59, 7 January 2014 (UTC)