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Speedy deletion nomination of Hippo Campus (band)

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A tag has been placed on Hippo Campus (band) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Hippo Campus

• Hi there. The biggest of problems was that you wrote the article without using a single source/reference. On Wikipedia, articles are written according to what reliable sources say on a topic. See WP:V for the concept, and WP:RS for how Wikipedia defines them. (A list of a bunch of sources that are acceptable or not acceptable can be found at WP:MUSIC/SOURCES.) So, as you can imagine, if articles are supposed to be written entirely by what other sources say, its rather troublesome when there is not a single source present. (I suppose "The Current" source was put at the bottom of the article, but it wasn't actually used to cite anything, so it was probably overlooked. Just as well, 1 source is not considered enough anyways.)
• The General Notability Guideline (GNG) is the general rule on whether or not a subject should have an article. It basically says that, reliable, third party sources should dedicate whole articles of their own on the subject. Again, sources like ones found at WP:MUSIC/SOURCES. Album/EP reviews, article discussing a bands upcoming release or concert, etc.
• If people find an article that lacks sources, and/or they feel fails the GNG, they may mark it for deletion in a few different ways. That's what someone did.
• At that point, an Admin, like myself, looks at the request, and makes a call on it. Usually, this results in either deleting it, or removing the tag, claiming that it should not be deleted. I declined the request, as I felt that, if the band was big enough to book a show on Conan, there's probably sources out there on them.
• In theory, people can still nominate it for deletion. I fixed a lot of formatting/style issues that made the article "stand out", so at least it shouldn't attract as much negative attention, but its still lacking in sources, so its still possible to get tagged again. I can try to help out with sources in the coming days, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
• A person on the talk page mentioned that the article was created by someone from the band or their management. Please know that Wikipedia has a conflict of interest guideline that strongly discourages people to edit articles that have an obvious connection/vested interest in, as they generally have a hard time staying neutral. As you created the article, I assume they're talking about you. So, please keep this in mind.

Short answer

• To make sure its not deleted, many more reliable sources that are third party (ie not the band's website, press release, social media, etc) need to be added to the article. Usually 4-5 keep people away from targeting it, in my experience. If the band has had any album/EP/song chart in any major chart (ie Billboard (magazine)) that helps a lot too. Sergecross73 msg me 03:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)