The result was delete. Closing based on early consensus. Thanks everyone! Missvain ( talk) 17:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
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Not notable GhostDestroyer100 ( talk) 17:14, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Another stub article about a non-notable band, this time about a noise music supergroup. Even though it had notable members such as the master of noise, Merzbow himself, the sourcing is beyond abysmal - Discogs and Musicbrainz still don't establish notability. They don't have an article on jpwiki either. When I searched for their albums, I only found the standard unreliable sites. By the way, this is the second nomination, as this article survived an AfD back in 2014 when it was closed as "no consensus" - it was basically kept just because the band had notable members. They sure did, but the sourcing is dreadful and it hasn't been changed ever since. Sourcing is the heart and soul of WP, basically. This can safely be included in any of the members' articles, but please, someone tell me, why do we need stubs like this which merely state that the band has existed and they were active at some point? That is the job of a database, and Wikipedia is not supposed to be a database. That's why I always cringe when I see unreliably sourced (or not even sourced whatsoever) stubs which merely announce the subject exists. Not just about bands, about anything. (I have been told at past AfDs that the "dark ages" of Wikipedia was in the 2000s, when lots of stubs were written, masquerading as articles, that merely announced the subject's existence. This was written in 2007. Since WP has lots and lots of articles, these tend to be forgotten, so that's why they survive for too long.) So, to the point: non-notable band. Btw, I love the name too. GhostDestroyer100 ( talk) 17:12, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
The result was delete. Closing based on early consensus. Thanks everyone! Missvain ( talk) 17:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
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Not notable GhostDestroyer100 ( talk) 17:14, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Another stub article about a non-notable band, this time about a noise music supergroup. Even though it had notable members such as the master of noise, Merzbow himself, the sourcing is beyond abysmal - Discogs and Musicbrainz still don't establish notability. They don't have an article on jpwiki either. When I searched for their albums, I only found the standard unreliable sites. By the way, this is the second nomination, as this article survived an AfD back in 2014 when it was closed as "no consensus" - it was basically kept just because the band had notable members. They sure did, but the sourcing is dreadful and it hasn't been changed ever since. Sourcing is the heart and soul of WP, basically. This can safely be included in any of the members' articles, but please, someone tell me, why do we need stubs like this which merely state that the band has existed and they were active at some point? That is the job of a database, and Wikipedia is not supposed to be a database. That's why I always cringe when I see unreliably sourced (or not even sourced whatsoever) stubs which merely announce the subject exists. Not just about bands, about anything. (I have been told at past AfDs that the "dark ages" of Wikipedia was in the 2000s, when lots of stubs were written, masquerading as articles, that merely announced the subject's existence. This was written in 2007. Since WP has lots and lots of articles, these tend to be forgotten, so that's why they survive for too long.) So, to the point: non-notable band. Btw, I love the name too. GhostDestroyer100 ( talk) 17:12, 14 December 2020 (UTC)