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 keep. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:17, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blaq Diamond[edit]

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This band fails WP:SIGCOV and WP:GNG woefully. It's obvious from Google search. Created by User:Steve Mafohla with very little edits. User:Robvanvee earlier tagged it for speedy which is proper. Wondering why User:Þjarkur declined the speedy and even went ahead to add two sources that fail WP:RS. One source seems to be an interview. This is worrisome. Estarosmārṭ (talk) 19:38, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Winning the South African Music Awards (which came after the last AfD) is a claim of significance, making this not qualify for speedy deletion. Are there indicators that OkayAfrica and News24 are not WP:RS? – Thjarkur (talk) 19:46, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted severally in the past even for WP:COI and previous AFD. Both sources are not good enough for WP:RS. One is an interview. The topic needs more news-related sources. The scorecard on Googlenews is quite abysmal. Wondering why you're defending this why we vote "delete" on many other better-written pages with good number of sources. Estarosmārṭ (talk) 20:19, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Soft Delete with possible refund - This one is tough. I voted to delete this group's article in the first AfD about 4.5 months ago. Since then they really have won the South African Music Award for Record of the Year, which is visible in several media sources about the awards ceremony (e.g. [1], [2]). That is a viable claim of notability. However they have practically no other media coverage outside of that award, and are only found in the same press releases and manager-planted stories as before. Perhaps with a big award win they will generate some notability going forward but it has not happened yet. If it happens, my precise recommendation for the "soft delete" procedure would allow the article to be re-created easily. ☆☆☆ DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 21:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep passes WP:NMUSIC (only one criteria needed) with receiving a major music award as confirmed by reliable sources. The coverage is basic but the award negates that in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 18:50, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. They've won an award which passes WP:ANYBIO and WP:NMUSIC. Pamzeis (talk) 10:07, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Don’t they technically pass GNG if they win a non-trivial award? I believe so. Because of that, Keep. Foxnpichu (talk) 19:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Update (voted above): To avoid pointless re-listings for the next several weeks, I have no problem with keeping the article because the voters after me have made convincing points. ☆☆☆ DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:31, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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