Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linear Sphere (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Tone 15:38, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Linear Sphere

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 07:32, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Second nomination of this article. The first was back in 2014 when the result was "no consensus". One of the users, who is very likely a COI/SPA editor really protested to keep the article, and he said that they are notable because they have been covered by Sea of Tranquility and they have a Metal Archives entry and they have an otherwise blank Allmusic page... I laughed my freaking butt off. First off, Sea of Tranquility is not a reliable source. Second, Metal Archives isn't reliable either, and btw, they have every metal band in the world there, even the ones that were active for one year and they released an EP or demo...so it's not a big deal to have a MA entry. Third, a blank Allmusic page is not a RS either. The band page has to contain a biography to be considered notable, and the album page must contain a staff-written review, and not just a track listing and user reviews. With this out of the way, this is a non-notable progressive metal band. The article is tagged with multiple issues, including notability, which is never a good sign. And the sourcing is dreadful. The only thing that is reliable is the Metal Storm review, because it was written in 2012 and Metal Storm after 2009 counts as reliable. The other sites are not even close to be reliable - Metal Archives, blank Allmusic page, the official site of the band and some blogs whose ___domain has been long expired or they simply display an error message, and the few that are available do not look reliable, because as I said, they are blogs. During a Google search I couldn't find anything better, therefore I am highly doubtful of this band's notability. So yeah, just another non-notable band. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 07:29, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 07:32, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 07:32, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The article contains links to the usual roster of metal zines which are not notable. I had to delete Metal-archive as it has been deemed unreliable and should not be used on Wikipedia. Quick Google search resulted in no sources to convince me that the band currently meets WP:GNG. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:37, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. They would have a place on a Fandom site for their genre and style of music, but not here. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:28, 11 December 2020 (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.