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 no consensus. I am concerned here about the "unsourced" argument, which brings up a verifiability problem. What saves this is Neier's source which does appear to ease some of these concerns, (with the caveat that I cannot read it as it's in Japanese). Further work may be needed on this article, or it may be renominated at some point in the future. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strawberry Flower

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Unsourced article about a "band" made up of three or more videogame characters; fails WP:MUSIC and WP:V. If there's anything of substance here, it should be merged into Pikmin. Orange Mike | Talk 19:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Three charted singles on the Oricon charts = clears WP:MUSIC easily. (Those sales figures are a bit suspicious, though - am tagging as such.) —Quasirandom (talk) 19:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Though if someone else could pull citations from Oricon, that'd be good. I fail at naviagiting that site. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:12, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Quasirandom (talk) 19:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Wow, video game characters charted three singles? I would say that's probably notable. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 20:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- comment - but if it is verifiable, I still feel it belongs under Pikmin, not as a separate legitimating article. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Exactly why I went for only a weak keep. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 22:12, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unless some secondary sources can be provided. Renee (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- Beloved Freak 21:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete typically musicians are credited, not fictional characters. Since the pretense of an artificial universe is unencyclopedic, I would say keep on condition of making it "real-life". But having no references pathetically fails WP:MUSIC! Seriously, the figures which happen all to be almost exactly 100,000 sold are definitely fabricated. Potatoswatter (talk) 22:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
merge with Pikmin unless real world stuff can be shown (in a way similar to the article on Gorillaz) which would make the band more notable on their own away from the source material. Jasynnash2 (talk) 10:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The band name was Strawberry Flower, and their songs charted. [1] is one example (#28) for the week. An alias for people singing in the guise of computer game characters is not any different than an alias for people singing in the guise of any other fictional character (The Rainbow Connection or P. D. Q. Bach, for example). Neier (talk) 15:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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