Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Computerman (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:34, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Computerman

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Defunct, non-notable banned signed to a minor label for two singles and which never released an album. Scraped through an AFD in 2008 on the basis of one reasonable BBC article and a couple of local pieces. In my opinion, not sufficient to pass WP:GNG, and nothing else they've done would get them past WP:NBAND. Hug^syrup 15:08, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. ~~ OxonAlex - talk 15:14, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. ~~ OxonAlex - talk 15:15, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND... in fact, if you read the article again, they only released one single in their entire career: the second one and the subsequent album were both cancelled. The single did reach no. 29 in the UK Indie Chart [1] but that really doesn't mean very much – a specialist chart where "indie" only refers to the fact that the the single was released on an independent label, not that the song is necessarily in any way alternative, which explains why the not-very-experimental-hardcore-at-all Katie Melua, Tiesto and Brian Kennedy all charted higher than Computerman that week... and the biggest-selling "indie" hit of that year was "Axel F" by Crazy Frog. The article's creator, a SPA, admits on the talk page that he only created the article because he was the band's manager. I don't really set much store by the fact that a local BBC station and a local newspaper both covered a local band as "the next big thing", because that's what they do all the time, and in this case the group never made it past that "next big thing" stage... a dozen years later and it's clear that the band will never record again and this article will never be improved. Richard3120 (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND. Appears to be one hit wonder band.Knox490 (talk) 20:27, 29 August 2019 (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.