Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Database of Recorded American Music (2nd nomination)


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The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR applies. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades Godric  05:48, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Database of Recorded American Music
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No evidence of notability. f e  minist  16:14, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. Appears to be the subject of some discussion at the intersection of music studies and library science. There's a fairly brief bit in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, the American Library Association-published Guide to Developing a Library Music Collection, and similar works. Billboard article on digital music services for libraries (2010-12-11, p 12), provides only a bare mention of DRAM, but does give a sense of the cost of the service to subscribing libraries. I suspect there's quite a bit more in sources I don't have ready access to. There appears to be a 2003 article about the inception of this database in The Gramophone, for example, and potentially some coverage in scholarly articles in Internet Reference Services Quarterly and Music Reference Services Quarterly (both Taylor and Francis publications). I don't find any silver bullet sources to firmly demonstrate notability, but that's not uncommon for library science resource topics. My opinion from what I can see is that it narrowly clears the bar. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:33, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:53, 7 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete as WP:ADVOCACY, with copy such as "....a continually growing, online resource providing on-demand, high-quality streaming media access to nearly 9,000 essential musical works...". And it goes downhill from there. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:55, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 03:09, 22 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep as meeting notability standards for a LA topic. Also note that AfD is not WP:CLEANUP for tone issues e.g. advocacy; editors have to do that for ourselves. Newimpartial (talk) 23:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SophisticatedSwampert let's talk about that 04:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


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