 ::: I've searched Filmmaker Magazine and did not find anything. I searched MovieMaker magazine and found this interview but an interview is considered to a primary source and the only mention of AWD is cursory. I also tried to find something on Empire, but had no luck there as well.  ::: It's surprising and unfortunate for sure that the AWD has not received better mainstream press coverage, but Wikipedia is not really the place to try and right great wrongs or for increasing the visibility or credibility of a particular subject. It is possible, after all, that the reason an AWD article has not been created until now was simply that no Wikipedia editor was able to find the sources needed to establish the group's notability. This article was directly added into the mainspace by  who may not have been too familiar with relevant Wikipedia policies. There's nothing wrong with doing it that way per se and lots of articles are added to Wikipedia that way. The risk of ending up at AfD, however, tends to be greater than if the article is added via WP:AFC. -   