Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artist's CD-ROM


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  20:05, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Artist's CD-ROM

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Not notable, indiscriminate, not sure if the the subject even exists as a concept, most search results come up with Wikipedia mirrors, and those that are not WP mirrors mostly refer to a specific artist. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete it was indeed a thing for a while, but the idea is now very dated. I don't see much in the way of sourcing in a search, and see nothing much worth merging somewhere else.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 05:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Incorporate into the article Artist's Book. The concept is the same as the artist's book. The use of CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs was a very minor period in the development of artist's books but is notable for exploring the medium of hypertext art.  wayland (talk) 13:38, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep and broaden the depth of the article and its sourcing on this short-lived, transitional media. To my mind, in the visual arts CD-ROMs are more of a type of new media art or digital art rather than artists books (although I understand that point of view also). However they were also deployed in numerous other disciplines, such as music, (see Lewis Foreman's article in The Musical Times, which subsequently received several reviews); ethnomusicology,[url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/852766] philosophy such as Mark C. Taylor (philosopher) (requires log-in); strait-up education ,,, ; library science ,; etc. Is it a dead media? Yes, pretty much dead - it went the way of the Zip disk, LaserDisc, 8-track cartridge, U-matic - however it is historically significant dead media, which is why I think it should have its own article. Netherzone (talk) 14:45, 24 September 2020 (UTC) Ooops! Just noticed that this AfD is for Artist's CD-ROM, not CD-ROMs in general; mea culpa! I have changed my !vote to Weak Keep, as most of my argument is for CD-ROMs in general. Still think there is enough sourcing out there to justify a short article. Netherzone (talk) 14:51, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - CD-ROM would benefit from an Applications section and Artist's book would be improved with a CD-ROM section but we don't have a single citation here so I don't see that this material will not be particularly helpful for either. I could not establish notability as a stand-alone topic. ~Kvng (talk) 15:06, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete it was a thing for a little bit, but since a CD-ROM is not really a medium that allows a specific form of expression, but merely a storage medium, all artist's CD-ROMs (with the possible exception of Philips' CDi are simply digital files that require a computer to be played. A number of plausible merge targets have been suggested, I think new media art could work, but I don't see a lot of content that could be merged, because the article has no citations. The pages that the article links to often don't mention CD-ROM, and the ones that do, have very scant references, with the exception of Tamblyn. Vexations (talk) 22:06, 27 September 2020 (UTC)


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