Deletion of Tons of Fun University

Comment: per .  Not even close
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)

Comment: Article doesn't meet the  criteria
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)

Comment: One very pertinent issue Dan raises in the problem of genre. There are specific sub-guidelines of  because a musician, an author, and a corporate figure are treated differently by the press - there are different types and volume of press coverage, different benchmarks of achievement, etc, and so more specific  guidelines have been created for each. However, not all articles will fit into one of the established categories, and when this happens it's necessary to use some common sense. I would suggest that because of this particular group's emphasis on spoken word and poetry, their work could also be considered to somewhat overlap with what would normally be covered with , which has less specific "press coverage" requirements, which this group easily meets. Furthermore, within usic the group also has become a "prominent representative of a notable style" (7) even if that style is more avant-garde, "won or placed in a major music competition " (9) (if we consider major poetry slams music competitions - again, an overlap of categories is evident here), and has certainly been mentioned in enough independent published works to at least approach requirement (1). Again, however, I emphasize that the  guidelines can only be just that, guidelines, especially for this case
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:N||WP:FICTION||WP:M||WP:N)

Comment: first i'll note that  says right up front that "the failure to meet any of these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted". that being said, they do meet some of the criteria: "a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country, reported in reliable sources" - i don't know if it's a tour per se, but they have performed all over canada and in the US. most of canada's music festivals, for starters. "Has become the most prominent representative of a notable style" - of slam poetry/spoken word, as in the youthink quote above. "Contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable" - not a band, but 2 of them are national slam grand champions. i think part of the problem is they are crossing genres; solely from a rock band pov they are probably not notable, but they are big names in the slam poetry community, and i think get notability here from that, just as if a musician put out a book of poetry
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)