Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Plastic Bucket

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:02, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yellow Plastic Bucket

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This article has one source. I was unable to find any additional independent published material about this band, although I did find a small advertisement for one of their two releases, and I found their name on a Trent University Radio playlist. —Anne Delong (talk) 04:36, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I don't see significant coverage in reliable sources. It's not too surprising for a local band that was only around for a few years. I got all excited when I saw the same Google Books hit as the nom, but, yeah, it's just an advertisement. Exclaim.ca often has reviews for these more obscure bands, but there wasn't anything there. The hits on Google all look like Wikipedia mirrors. It's possible there's stuff that never got digitally archived. If someone finds offline coverage, the article can be recreated. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While the Jam "Pop Music Encyclopedia" link does make some vague claims of significance that might count for something if they could be quantified properly, vague claims like "harvested enthusiastic critical response from a number of influential publications" and "garnered a significant amount of College radio airplay" and "included in syndicated radio programs" don't satisfy WP:NMUSIC in the absence of firm sources demonstrating which specific "influential publications" or which specific "syndicated radio programs" were involved — these are exactly the kind of puffed-up claims that we routinely see in articles about self-promoting wannabes who don't actually have any genuinely strong evidence of notability to offer. (Frex, for current bands the "influential publications" often turn out to be published to Blogspot and the "syndicated radio programs" often turn out to be podcasts — and while those didn't exist in the 1990s per se, the 1990s did have zines and tape trading networks that could also be PR-massaged into unnamed "influential publications" and unnamed "syndicated radio programs".)
On a ProQuest search, further, I got just eight hits for "yellow plastic bucket", all of which were referring to water receptacles that happened to be coloured yellow and made of plastic, and none of which were referring to a band. So, yeah, none of this meets NMUSIC as things stand — especially since even the poor references we do have just credit them with two singles, but zero full-length albums, and even the unreliable fansite quotes reviews in zines, not reviews in publications like Rolling Stone or Spin or Exclaim! that would actually count for something. Sure, the article could be recreated in the future if somebody can find good sourcing that properly supports notability — but on the evidence of what we've got so far I won't exactly hold my breath. Bearcat (talk) 14:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Article lacks sources to back up any claims. (I'm especially curious in what way they "influenced" Neil Young (!)) ----

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