Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Withdrawn: see comments in discussion by someone who clearly doesn't have hisself and his memory straight. Drmies (talk) 21:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore
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Bear with me. First of all, this is a non-notable book: there is no discussion I can find of the book itself in reliable sources. Second, I can't find a likely redirect. The book's author is Albert Mudrian, whose article (as you can see) is a redirect to the magazine he edits, Decibel (magazine). Now, there was an AfD on Mudrian, Articles for deletion/Albert Mudrian, which was closed as "redirect to the magazine"--I don't know why Julian redirected it to this book he authored; something may have happened along the way. Either way, to redirect this title to the magazine, with Mudrian as a kind of intermediary, strikes me as redundant, so I'm proposing deletion. If you all think that the article views (there are some, to be fair) warrant a continued existence as a redirect, that's fine with me--if you wish to propose that, perhaps you are not unwilling to add a couple of lines to the Decibel article about this author and the two books he wrote/edited (the other being the non-notable Precious Metal (book), which I've just redirected to Decibel, a good target since it's based on features in that magazine). Thanks. Drmies (talk) 17:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 January 11.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  17:46, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. The previous AfD established that sufficient coverage exists - take out the sockpuppets and consensus was for keeping. There's a lot linked from Mudrian's website such as reviews from Maximunrocknroll, Terrorizer and Kerrang, plus there are others such as SPIN, CMJ New Music Monthly. The sockpuppet-nominated AfD on Mudrian only had input from three people, none of whom found the coverage of him that does exist. Shame. I found two articles from reliable sources on his other book, by the way. --Michig (talk) 18:27, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hold on there, Michig--for some reason, when "AfD2" appeared, I was thinking of the AfD for the editor. Old age I suppose. Let me have another look. Drmies (talk) 20:57, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, waddayaknow. Guess whose the last "keep" vote was in that AfD. It is catching up with me, and I'll close this right away. Drmies (talk) 21:01, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.