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The result was delete. J04n( talk page) 16:20, 19 December 2015 (UTC) reply

Above All

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Does not appear to meet notability guidelines, either WP:NBAND pr WP:GNG. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 15:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 21:02, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete as I clearly found nothing better. Thanks for nominating this Walter Görlitz because if someone else including myself had nominated it and you hadn't come around yet, I would've notified you. SwisterTwister talk 05:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 05:16, 20 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete - Once again the commonality of a name made it difficult to research. I couldn't find anything on the search engines which showed them to pass WP:GNG, but am open to re-evaluating if someone else finds good in-depth sources. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 20:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC) reply
• Research -- relevant sources (ie: mid-1990s UK metal/music magazines) would exist offline:

• Per this appearance on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, they played support for Fear Factory, Downset, and Dog Eat Dog (band). Per this, Stampin Ground appeared to tour with them.
• Per forum posts here and here, it appears that they had magazine coverage at the time. Per this, they had coverage in Melody Maker
• Per this ad for Armed with Anger: How UK Punk survived the 90s, it looks like the band is credited as significant in the progression of UK metalcore.
• They have an entry in the Encyclopaedia of Popular Music.
• As Above All, they had one record released by a major indie label (their second was very minor). Per this post, however, their predecessor band Stand Off released a record on longstanding German indie label Crucial Response Records.^~~ Hydronium^~Hydroxide^{~ (Talk)~~} 06:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete. I looked at the sources offered by Hydronium Hydroxide. Most of them fail to meet our definition of a WP:RS. Most of them are blogs and other first-party sources. The oxfordreference entry is certainly a reliable source, in the sense that it's independent and has editorial oversight, but it simply establishes that this exists, nothing more. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC) reply

• I wasn't suggesting that those links could be considered RS, but that they were breadcrumbs to (offline reliable) sources (potentially indicating notability). In the absence of such evidence being produced, then WP:DEL7 would apply and the breadcrumbs are at least listed for any future re-creation attempt. Cheers, ^~~ Hydronium^~Hydroxide^{~ (Talk)~~} 11:57, 13 December 2015 (UTC) reply

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