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The result was keep. Some !votes have been discounted as unrelated to policy (as RL0919 alluded to) but there are still sufficiently many fact-based comments that relate to GNG (implicitly) or NBAND for this to have achieved consensus to be kept. (non-admin closure) — Bilorv (talk) 09:44, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IXFORM[edit]

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Non notable group. Worked only in one film. Fails WP:GNG, WP:SIGCOV DMySon (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Previous debut teams from Youth With You series and Produce Camp series has their articles. Very notable. User:LoveFromBJM (Talk) 01:12, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It's a new group, but it's already well-known. Sara Melo da Silva Costa (Talk) 23:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Entertainment-related deletion discussions. DMySon (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. DMySon (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. DMySon (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. ✗plicit 12:51, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep The article currently has five sources. Two of them are about the TV show that the group was on, so they don't add to the group's notability. The other three sources describe the group's creation. Thus, the question is: are these sources reliable, and do they qualify as significant coverage? I'm going to give this article the benefit of the doubt and say that, at the very least, these sources are good enough to establish notability. Mlb96 (talk) 20:35, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. They have their official Weibo Group Account. https://weibo.com/u/6044932061?nick=IXFORM%E5%AE%98%E5%8D%9A&is_all=1 . User:LianhuaiV (Link) 15:27, 11 August 2021 (PST)
• Keep. official Weibo Account of All 9 members claiming the IXFORM group name. Luo Yizhou - https://weibo.com/u/6463527162?topnav=1&wvr=6&topsug=1&is_all=1 , Tang Jiuzhou - https://weibo.com/u/2620811727?is_all=1 , Lian Huaiwei - https://weibo.com/lianhuaiwei?is_all=1 , Liu Guanyou - https://weibo.com/u/7475996012?is_all=1 , Deng Xiaoci - https://weibo.com/u/3568284361?is_all=1 , Sun Yinghao - https://weibo.com/u/6123372493?is_all=1 , Liu Jun - https://weibo.com/u/6356142753?is_all=1 , Duan Xingxing - https://weibo.com/u/7518069250?is_all=1 , Sun Yihang - https://weibo.com/u/2565158051?is_all=1 . User:LianhuaiV (Link) 15:27, 11 August 2021 (PST)
• Keep Meets WP:NBAND #9, having been created out of the winners of a national music competition. Jumpytoo Talk 07:12, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Admin comment. I was looking at this for possible closure. There is a lot of agreement on the desired outcome, but most of the arguments offered are terrible from a Wikipedia policy perspective: they have social media accounts, the members are notable, etc. The only plausible one is the sourcing claim from Mlb96, but the sources they mention look a lot like non-reliable blogs: "about" pages written in the first person, posts made with username handles instead of full names, etc. I'm not sure what the best course of action is for this, so leaving this comment here for other possible closers to consider. --RL0919 (talk) 14:54, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment For what it's worth, three more sources have been added to the article. They're all in Chinese, so I can't assess them for depth of coverage, but they come from what seem to be respectable news outlets. Mlb96 (talk) 23:41, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep looks like it meets WP:NBAND Idunnox3 (talk) 22:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, per the newly added Chinese sources. /Julle (talk) 23:53, 26 August 2021 (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.