Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Universal Music Group artists


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The result was   no consensus. Listed for 18 days with no arguments for deletion aside from the nominator but not enough participation to determine consensus. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:55, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

List of Universal Music Group artists

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"Universal Music Group" is not a label, but rather an aggregation of labels. None of these artists is signed to Universal Music Group proper, but one of its actual labels — Universal, Mercury, MCA, what have you. Therefore, this list is incomplete, misleading and redundant, as other lists such as List of Mercury Records artists already exist to cover all of the Universal Music Group labels. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:54, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree that listing by label would be better. UMG has a lot of labels and ownership has changed over the years. Perhaps the information here could be split off to seperate articles before deletion.--Michig (talk) 19:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  23:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
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 * Regarding Michig's content, all of the Universal labels have their own "List of x artists" already. There's nothing worth splitting off. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:06, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  23:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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 * Potentially stupid question Would it be possible/worthwhile to turn this into some sort of "UMG owns a lot of labels and here's their artist lists" disambiguation page? Not being very knowledgeable about the music business I couldn't have told you no one signs to UMG proper, and I'd like to think I'm not the only one out there.  Unless of course that'd be hopelessly complex because of mergers or something. BryanG (talk) 07:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
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