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Article about a band, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. As always, bands are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist(ed), and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party coverage about them in reliable sources — notability is not a question of the things the article asserts that the band accomplished, it’s a question of the volume and depth of GNG-worthy coverage about the band, in reliable sources independent of the band, that can or cannot be shown to properly verify that the things it asserts are true.
A band is not automatically notable just because they got a song onto college radio, for instance — the radio criterion in NMUSIC requires a national network (which, in Canada, means CBC Music or bust), not just random unnamed and unsourced individual radio stations, and requires reliable source verification to actually pass. The touring criterion, similarly, is not automatically passed just because the article says they toured — the requirement is that their tour garnered media attention, such as concert reviews in reliable source publications.
And while I found a couple of hits in ProQuest, entirely of the “local band tries to make it” variety in their hometown newspaper, neither of them verify almost anything claimed here besides the band members’ names and an album title. But two hits isn’t enough to pass GNG, and otherwise all I’m finding is glancing namechecks in local concert listings rather than substantive coverage.
This was previously soft-deleted in 2024, before being refunded yesterday on an RFU request by a brand new user with no prior edit history (and thus possibly a person with a direct conflict of interest) — but the article is entirely unsourced as written, I haven’t been able to find nearly enough properly reliable sourcing even after a careful search, and nothing stated in the article is “inherently” notable enough to exempt them from having to pass GNG. Bearcat (talk) 18:20, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a link to a CBC Radio 3 profile on the page. It’s not loading for me right now, giving the error “page took too long to respond.”

As for other sources, I couldn’t find much. I found:

– a drive-by listing in a magazine scan from 1998 saying they’d be playing in a Toronto festival. (Page 11)

– a listing in the Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia which lists member names and album releases (incidentally, couldn’t find anything at all on Uranus Releases, their record label)

– a Discogs page

– a tiny mention in an obitiuary for a member of a band they played with once

– a forum post apparently from a band member that has a lot more details, but it unreliable on its own. This is a different band with the same name!

– catalogue listings SenshiSun (talk) 00:06, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

CBC Radio 3 band profiles don’t exist anymore — its website went defunct several years ago, and R3 itself now exists only as a playlist on CBC Music rather than as its own standalone radio service. It also wasn’t a reliable or notability-building source even when it was live, as it was a site where bands and musicians could put themselves rather than a site that was conferring third-party coverage. So it’s not just “not loading for you right now”, it’s not loading for anybody and never will. Bearcat (talk) 05:14, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]