Deletion of Traveler's Dream

Comment: Clear failure of rof, looks too thin for usic but I am open to correction
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P||WP:M)

Comment: DougT1235 has been trying to improve the article and there is now a source listed as the Niles (Michigan) ''Gazette''. (How he has Newsweek articles from 1976 and local Michigan newspapers from 1991 around is anyone's guess.) Unfortunately, all I can find about the Niles ''Gazette'' publication is http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025641/ this Library of Congress listing.  So even if it is real in more recent history, it would appear to be a minor publication at best. And the ''Newsweek'' article still strikes me as doubtful. I wonder if the article isn't photos of the bicentennial in which Ms. Wilson happens to appear as a member of a local fife band, rather than an article about her or her old fife band. All in all, even with the new sources, I still think the group and its member fail  #1
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)

Comment: I don't see that many of the above claims are borne-out by the references. The latter fall basically into 4 categories: (1) sources that are from publications of various levels of obscurity (e.g. Niles Gazette, Muzzle Blasts, the Purdue PR/alum publication "Krannert Magazine", Wilson's thesis, etc.) that don't seem, by themselves, to satisfy "multiple non-trivial published works", for example http://www.helenmagazine.com/where.asp Helen Magazine appears to be a local "what's happening"-type of PR-glossy that the merchants of Lafayette Indiana furnish for free, (2) sources that very plainly ''are'' trivial coverage according to , e.g. playlists like http://www.midnightspecial.org/chicago/c20091128.html this one, the article in Scouting Magazine, the sum-total of coverage here being "The course’s first day included ... attending a campfire featuring folk-music duo Traveler’s Dream and professional storyteller Bob Valentine", the http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,138618,00.html ArtistDirect webpage of Carrie Newcomer's CD, etc., (3) hits to their http://travelersdream.net/ own website, which are clearly not subject independent, and (4) the Newsweek source. In my view, the whole case hinges on the Newsweek source, in particular what the nature of the coverage is. I've asked about this above, to which
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)

Comment: Despite the rather pointed personal criticism directed at me by DougT1235 and North8000, I likely would have changed to a weak keep ''if'' the ''Newsweek'' article had been ''about'' Wilson. DougT1235 just confirmed that it is not. I think Agricola44 and Xxanthippe have hit the nail on the head. There are only a couple of articles actually about the group or its members--where a summary of the article would even mention their name-- and those are in sources insufficient to get the group over the  #1 hump (or general notability). All of the work done the last week by North8000 and DougT1235 and the significant personal interest they have taken in the article leads me to believe no better sources are to be found. Therefore, I am even more strongly of the opinion that the group fails notability
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)

Comment: Plenty of information but nothing that I can see that meets the very specific requirements of .  Wishful thinking about what those requirements might mean if they were stretched beyond usefulness doesn't add to a discussion about policy
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSIC)