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... A bit of background on the history of this article stub. Admins beware of deleting articles too quickly, just because you don't know the subject and don't bother to check before you delete!
09:42, 17 July 2010 Davewild (talk | contribs) deleted "4troops" (A7: Article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject) Hey Dave. Can you please justify this deletion? I added the page stub after seeing their show on PBS. A Google search for 4Troops returns "only" one Million results. Not enough significance? Wikipedia culture suggests you tread lightly. Creating is difficult, deletion is easy. Err on the side of caution! Chris (Cwagner) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwagner ( talk • contribs) 08:47, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a collective effort. People build articles together. So someone may initiate an article with a Start or Stub and then others build on that. Jimmy Wales describes this as "Wiki Magic". You can read about it in my article on Innovative Content Creation. Speedy deletion of an article defies this logic. Further, Speedy Deletion should only happen in cases of an obvious lack of notability. Hence, instead of overzealously deleting, anyone could have done a simple search and would have found the number of Google hits, would have found the report on them on CNN, and on ABC News. They are not the Rolling Stones and I am not a fan of theirs, but they are noteworthy. And I am a Wikipedia supporter and am gravely concerned when its principles are undermined. Also, WP:GOOGLEHITS is an ongoing discussion. It should not be used as an argument to justify deletion (see the article).
Please undelete the 4Troops page. I cannot undelete it as I am not an administrator. (Cwagner)
Thank you. I have recreated the article based on the copy you sent back to me. (Cwagner)
In this case it is. Cwagner ( talk) 03:29, 4 August 2010 (UTC)Cwagner
Personally, I think press releases always fall under Self-published sources, and thus almost never count as a reliable source, but I suppose an argument could be made that this meets one of the exceptions for SPS. I don't think it does, but I don't believe that strongly enough to want to revert it into EL. Qwyrxian ( talk) 03:32, 4 August 2010 (UTC)