The result was merge to Hockey Night in Canada#Finding a new theme: Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge. Liz Read! Talk! 18:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
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Article about a song, not making any strong claim to passing
WP:NSONGS. The notability claim here is that it was entered in a music competition in 2008 -- it very briefly went viral for how appallingly bad it was, and got a brief three-day blip of media coverage because of that, but didn't win (or even advance in) the competition and has had no enduring impact since.
The sourcing available, further, isn't sufficient to claim that this would pass
WP:GNG instead of having to pass musical notability criteria: there's one deadlinked
National Post footnote that I've been completely unable to recover from either Wayback or ProQuest, one deadlinked
Globe and Mail footnote that was recoverable but turned out to be a short blurb rather than substantive analysis, a blog that isn't support for notability and a
primary source that doesn't mention this song and serves only to verify the fact that it didn't make the finals of the competition. And even on a ProQuest search for further coverage, the only other thing I can find is a piece of "local guy does stuff" in the community hyperlocal of the songwriter's hometown inside the same three-day period as the other sources, which still isn't enough.
So, effectively, this is just the musical equivalent of a BLP1E, and nothing here would pass the
ten year test for enduring significance.
Bearcat (
talk) 15:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
The result was merge to Hockey Night in Canada#Finding a new theme: Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge. Liz Read! Talk! 18:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
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Article about a song, not making any strong claim to passing
WP:NSONGS. The notability claim here is that it was entered in a music competition in 2008 -- it very briefly went viral for how appallingly bad it was, and got a brief three-day blip of media coverage because of that, but didn't win (or even advance in) the competition and has had no enduring impact since.
The sourcing available, further, isn't sufficient to claim that this would pass
WP:GNG instead of having to pass musical notability criteria: there's one deadlinked
National Post footnote that I've been completely unable to recover from either Wayback or ProQuest, one deadlinked
Globe and Mail footnote that was recoverable but turned out to be a short blurb rather than substantive analysis, a blog that isn't support for notability and a
primary source that doesn't mention this song and serves only to verify the fact that it didn't make the finals of the competition. And even on a ProQuest search for further coverage, the only other thing I can find is a piece of "local guy does stuff" in the community hyperlocal of the songwriter's hometown inside the same three-day period as the other sources, which still isn't enough.
So, effectively, this is just the musical equivalent of a BLP1E, and nothing here would pass the
ten year test for enduring significance.
Bearcat (
talk) 15:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)