Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anything Goes (John McGlinn recording)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) --- Coffee  and crumbs  05:02, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Anything Goes (John McGlinn recording)

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Fails all of the criteria of WP:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines. -- Softlavender (talk) 20:33, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:35, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

This is the first recording of the original version of the musical.Niggle1892 (talk) 21:35, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. note that it also fails WP:NALBUM and WP:COPYVIO. The main bulk of the article consists of long paraphrases of critics reviews - these are certainly violations of copyright.Smerus (talk) 06:56, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * copyvio concerns can be removed, this has happened. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment, although technically meeting no. 1 of WP:NALBUM - "subject of multiple [ie. 2 or more], non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble who created it." as article (now after possible copyvio being removed) lists reviews by Gramophone and Sound & Vision, past consensus amongst classical album wikieditors appears to require more. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:06, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep per WP:NALBUM. The article's COPYVIO issue has now been addressed - brief quotes from reviews will be supplied in due course. The album is the first historically informed recording of the work and of fundamental importance in its discography. See Opera Now, April 1991, p. 45 for further discussion.Niggle1892 (talk) 16:00, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per criteria 1 in WP:NALBUM. The uniqueness of this recording is discussed in context to the show and other recordings in the book Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden, OUP USA, 2013, pg 141, 307, and 312. The work was also reviewed in Fanfare, 1993, Volume 16, Issues 5-6, Page 415; Stereo Review, 1991, Volume 56, Page 53; Theater Week, 1991, Volume 3, Issues 21-29 - Page 42; and Musical America'', 1990, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 76.4meter4 (talk) 20:23, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:01, 25 September 2019 (UTC) Comment See also Steven Suskin's The Sound of Broadway Music, 2011; Ethan Mordden's Sing For Your Supper, 2015, p. 65; ARSC Journal, Vol. 23, 1992, p. 166. The importance of McGlinn in the history of American musical theater is almost impossible to overstate.Niggle1892 (talk) 20:48, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep, meets WP:NALBUM with multiple reviews in article and listed above. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:38, 27 September 2019 (UTC)


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