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The result was redirect to Zack Werner. The content is available under the redirect for anyone desirous of merging it. Stifle (talk) 17:25, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Zero reliable sourcing found. Of the sources given, only the Winnipeg Free Press seems to have any substance. The rest are just passing mentions in the context of Zack Werner, whose own notability is at least somewhat higher than the band's. The only other source is CTV, an archive of which shows it was just a promo fluff piece for Canadian Idol. The only single and album didn't chart; the album redirects to the band; and their only content was never noticed by any critics. "Zack Werner" "Haymaker" turns up nothing on Google News, newspapers.com, or americanradiohistory.com. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:11, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:11, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 05:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 05:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Previously AFD'd (by me!) in 2009 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haymaker (country rock band) with result of "no consensus". Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 07:26, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Zack Werner. Coverage appears to be mainly mentions of the band in articles about Zack Werner ([1], [2]), so a merge there seems appropriate. --Michig (talk) 16:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, without prejudice against recreation of a redirect to Zack Werner. The only notability claim in evidence here is that one member of the band went on to become a judge on a reality show — which makes it fine to briefly mention the band in his BLP, but is not in and of itself a reason why the band would qualify for its own separate article if they didn't accomplish anything that would get them over NMUSIC as a band: even the fact that he was a judge on a reality show had a lot more to do with his success as a record producer and label president than it ever did with this band per se. And for that very reason, I don't see a credible reason why it would be necessary to retain this article's entire edit history behind a redirect — we should just delete this and then create a redirect if desired, rather than just converting this to a redirect but leaving the edit history intact. Bearcat (talk) 20:59, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to Zack Werner and improve that article. If there's no news or charting positions, it's unlikely to be notable. - ChrisWar666 (talk) 00:09, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to Zack Werner.4meter4 (talk) 03:22, 29 October 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.