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This is my first-ever article. Learning about artist notability in subcultures, influence, citations,
[edit]This is my first Wikipedia article, ever, so please be gentle.
I'm reading about and learning the platform's standard for notability. This can be a difficult standard for artist profiles that existing within sub-culture/counter-cultural worlds that don't see a lot of conventional 'mainstream' press. I would like to assert that this band's long extensive history of participation in prominent punk music festivals, along with their frequent appearances in concerts alongside more prominent artists, support their notability, but there isn't a Rolling Stone article detailing these feats. How (or can?) a Wikipedia article assert notability simply based on a band/musician's long-running popularity among there fan base? It's clear they've been selling records and playing for fans for nearly 20 years, right? So their art is indeed relevant and therefore notable to these people, and that relevance is reflected, in these types of sub-cultures, by blogger album reviews, online zines, etc., not in People Magazine?
For comparison, I reviewed the Wikipedia article for Slick Shoes and discovered very limited 'notability' citations. Really just a single citation in which Loudwire put them on a top-50 list. Don't misunderstand: I think Slick Shoes is also notable and relevant, but I'd be interested in other ideas around a given artist's 'notability'....is it really mainstream news articles that makes an artist 'notable'? PedanticNarrativeController (talk) 20:04, 21 December 2025 (UTC)