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The result was delete. MBisanz talk 05:19, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Contested Speedy Delete. Fails to establish notability of the subject, no assertion of notability. Lack of independent reliable sources found through Google searches. Textbook fail of WP:BAND. Icemotoboy (talk) 01:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do not delete but wikify the article. The most important places to be seen for the modern bands are Myspace, Youtube, Last fm, Napster, Rhapsody, CDbaby, Tunecore, Itunes etc, the times have past for the monopoly of record companies and medias like MTV in music business. R&S pop-rock band has founded 2006 and they have already over 35 000 friends on Myspace (15. position of the Finnish bands of all genres) They havent made a single show, but they have made mp3 albums for the most important mps3 netstores across the world: Napster, Rhapsody, Itunes, Amazon.com, eMusic, Shockhound, Groupie Tunes etc., and their music is bough all over the world. The R&S pop-rock band makes a retro pop-rock music, but in the modern way they are very well known all over the world, in the places that musician nowdays are. It would be a great pleasure for the huge record companies that the bands like R&S pop-rock band would not exist, but sorry they do. Maybe we should start deleting bands here in wikipedia by evaluating their importance in a modern way, or would you like to favor just those 5 big record companies ( revenue statics: 14% to artist and 86% for the record company, or maybe there should be room for independed artists also, who sometimes also by the way give their music away for free. I do hope that there will be room for all kind of music, artists and music business in this world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rock master europe (talk • contribs) 20:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi there. Wikipedia has quite clear guidelines for what bands do and do not constitute an encyclopedic article (see WP:BAND). Verify notability means that we need independent verifiable sources in order to ensure that the subject in question is indeed notable. Imagine if we didn't have such benchmarks, then how would we decide what is notable for inclusion and what is not? How would we verify what was true and what was not? Smaller bands can and do get covered by mainstream and alternative press. If you can post some reviews, some news articles, or basically anything that is independent of the subject - then we can take a look at including the article. Icemotoboy (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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