Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Americade (band)
per nom. While I didn't read the entirety of the creator's lengthy dissertation, I did catch enough of it to recognize that he likely misunderstands what Wikipedia is for: we are ''not'' a free public relations platform on which any topic (person, band or otherwise) is ''entitled'' to have an article just because they ''existed''. To get into Wikipedia, a band has to be |reliably sourceable as having accomplished something which satisfies an  criterion, and ''both'' parts of that equation have to be met. A band does not get an article just for ''claiming'' passage of an NMUSIC criterion if that fact cannot be ''sourced'' anywhere — and if a band is so "obscure" that the sourcing has to depend almost entirely on minor music zines and a band member's own |self-published website about himself, because ''quality'' sourcing on the order of published books, ''Rolling Stone'', ''Spin'' and major market daily newspapers doesn't exist, then that ''is'' a reason in and of itself why the band doesn't ''get'' a Wikipedia article. Is it unfair that the band didn't get as much media coverage as the bassist thinks they should have? Sure. But it's not Wikipedia's job to ''rectify'' that unfairness if we have to rely on bad sourcing to do it
— User:Bearcat, 23:48, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NMUSIC||WP:SELFPUB (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)