On 12/14/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Mark Gallagher wrote:
Re: expansion, all I've heard on that front is people asking that band vanity be speediable. This doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me, although the question of what to do with borderline cases is a big one. Consider garage bands that formed last week and haven't even decided what songs they want to cover, let alone done any gigs or considered writing their own songs, but have definitely had time to create a Wikipedia entry ...
I would not allow this one. There's been a few band deletions of Australian indie bands who *of course* they aren't on bloody allmusic, because it's essentially a US site. So one has to wade in and fix things.
They don't HAVE to be on allmusic. But we do need some verifiable evidence they meet the guidelines set out in [[WP:NMG]] in some way. If Australian indie bands are at all worth listing, surely they have toured Australia, have a video out on national TV or at least some reasonably popular CDs out, right?