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I am unable to find evidence that Dieker or the band (also Dieker) meet N:MUSIC. A BEFORE identifies only interviews and social media sourcing. NB: there are a lot of hits as someone with this name writes for Bankrate. Star Mississippi 23:15, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Bands and musicians, and Women. Star Mississippi 23:15, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:53, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What the heck, I just contacted Dieker (we used to be colleagues) and confirmed the band is defunct. I wrote most of this article ages ago while working to fill out coverage of "nerd-folk" as a musical category. At the time the band was still active and doing interesting things, but it never "broke out"; she's done with it and has moved on.

So unless someone has an argument that the article SHOULDN'T be removed, let's go ahead and delete it. Blogjack (talk) 20:09, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dieker (yes, the same one) seems to have shifted away from music to become a full time writer. As a writer she is the author of the "Larkin Day" series of murder mysteries (book #4 is in-process), a few other books and a gazillion freelance "personal finance" articles for a variety of periodicals (including but not limited to Bankrate). Here's her Vox bio; here's the mystery series and here's her Amazon page.

...but so far as I can tell, the band is on hiatus. I think I'd have to agree she's not particularly notable now as a Band.

Blogjack (talk) 04:53, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]