Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ted and The Treble Tones

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The result was delete. No sources have been provided to verify content in the article, nor have any been forthcoming to qualify topic notability. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:36, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ted and The Treble Tones[edit]

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This article is unsourced and no YouTube videos of this band's songs exist. Searching "Trouble Trio" only had no link to the band whatsoever. Also, looking at the band's page on Google Play will only give results for songs by "El Bret Treble" with the album "Controlled" which was from 2011 and has no relation to the article. Even though there's a YouTube user with the same name of the "band", using Google to search any of the band members gave me no references to the article. Therefore, this article has to be a hoax and needs to be removed from Wikipedia. Snowager (talk) 05:26, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Deadbeef 06:11, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Deadbeef 06:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I've struck the first half of the article as a copyvio of [1]. Those wondering where the context went can check the article history. Deadbeef 06:13, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I know that there is one source, but I'm uncertain if it is either a reliable source or if someone who's a user of the site just read the article, grabbed information about this article and uploaded the supposedly false info to that source, or if some articles of that source are reliant on Wikipedia information. Like I said on my concern for the article for deletion, YouTube doesn't have any videos of that band and on Google Play and Itunes, who has no mention to the band whatsoever, it shows up El Bret Treble's songs instead, having songs such as "Monkeys In The Mist" and "Fire to the Drapes", but no mention to "Trouble Trio". Besides, El Bret Treble's album in the name of "Controlled" is from 2011, not 1959, so I infer that the article is a hoax to make people, including internet surfers to believe in such band. Snowager (talk) 09:18, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax. "Trouble Trio," or anything else from this supposed band, doesn't show up anywhere within the Billboard charts for 1959. Plus, several names listed for band members aren't found anywhere on Google other than in this article and mirrors - there should at least be some other references if these individuals are real. This article has been around since 2006, which is likely older than [2]. My guess is that Wikipedia served as the source for that page, rather than vice versa. Consequently, this article likely isn't a copyvio - "only" a hoax. 66.177.64.39 (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Hoax or not, the article completely fails to assert notability. In fact, it comes awfully close to admitting there is none by implying the band is obscure. - furrykef (Talk at me) 07:17, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.