Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Let's Go Bowling

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:22, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let's Go Bowling

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Article about a band, not properly referenced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. As always, bands are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass certain specific notability criteria supported by WP:GNG-worthy reliable source coverage about them -- but this cites no referencing at all, and is basically written as a directory entry rather than an encyclopedia article: it goes "they are a band who exist, list of members, list of recordings, website link, the end", without documenting a single thing about their career that could possibly be measured against NMUSIC at all. And the article's been tagged for lacking sourcing since 2010 without ever having any sourcing added.
Simple existence is not "inherently" notable enough to exempt a band from having to have any sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 20:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians and California. Bearcat (talk) 20:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. A start here: Allmusic [1] [2] [3] as well as [4] [5] [6](very short) [7] (user generated?) Geschichte (talk) 22:10, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep On top of the critical coverage identified by Geschichte, one of which states the subject is one of the "founders of West Coast ska revival", there is further critical coverage in another WP:RSMUSIC publication here. I have added several of the identified citations to the article; it is no longer unsourced but still needs expansion. Should be enough here to get over the bar for a keep. ResonantDis_tortion 20:04, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Further coverage from the Fresno Bee and the Arizona Daily Star has been identified and added to the article. The bylined Bee article states the subject is "pretty much the biggest band to come out of Fresno". ResonantDis_tortion 20:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep per above. Geschichte (talk) 17:41, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GrabUp - Talk 21:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, they meet WP:BAND. In addition to the sources found and added by ResonantDistortion, I've found in digitised newspapers a 1995 article/review of their first CD [8]; a 1996 review of their second CD [9]; a 1997 review of a live performance with songs from their 2nd CD, which also says a video of a single from that CD was on regular rotation on MTV2 [10]; and a para about that video in an article about ska music [11]. (The links are to NewspaperArchive.com in the Wikipedia library, so should be accessible to anyone with access to that.) RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.