Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Your Choice Records bands


 * 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   merge to Your Choice Records.  MBisanz  talk 00:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

List of Your Choice Records bands

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Contested prod. List of bands that signed with Your Choice Records, a minor German label. Any relevant information should be merged to the main article. We do not need a separate article. Also, a COI tag was removed at the same time as the prod. Delete.  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 00:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge - Merge with main article. Proxy User (talk) 17:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Your Choice Records is an independent record label that has managed to create a fairly astonishing catalog of live European and American punk bands in an important period of time. It is very notable as it has documented and released moments of musical history that, even if it happened all independent and without major promotion and big money involved, had a huge impact to the development on music itself. I don´t think we need to argue about "punk" and question it´s existence here. But the musicians mentioned on the "List of Your Choice Records bands" really had strong believe in what they did and they made great changes possible, made people think and react. I think all this is very notable and NOT MINOR.

This extra page seems reasonable to feature the artists by their names. It is relevant information and Wikipedia, it is a nice overview and it is the right place to provide this information, so please help out to SAVE the info, not to delete! Thank you!

Some more, regarding the list of bands: Germany already agreed with the German version of the extra site. See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Choice_Records_-_Diskografie and I really don´t understand the consideration for deletion. It feels so degrading...

Internal links to the pages of the various bands should fix the problem with the MISSING SOURCES, besides, there is a possibility to check the official site of the label and various sites about releases of the Your Choice Label on Wikipedia, done by various people...

To MERGE all of this to the main article seems to be a bit to much for that main site. What´s the problem with leaving it like it is? Do we have a problem with adding an extra site to Wikipedia for some reason?

Anyways please do what you have to do. It was a lot of work to prepare the info and site. If you need to delete for reasons I can not understand, well then go for it and delete. Party diktator (talk) 20:04, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. The fundamental question is whether this information belongs in Wikipedia. The list seems to be of reasonable length; it's not the can of worms that, say, List of artists on Capital Records would be. Is the list directly verifiable? No: There is no source that references each of the artists recording on Your Choice. Is it indirectly verifiable? Yes: The notable bands mentioned in the list have albums on Your Choice listed in their respective (discography) articles. (Comment on what Party diktator said: internal links do not remedy the missing sources issue, though reliable sources cited on the linked pages can carry over.)
 * The secondary question is whether to merge this content with the Your Choice Records article. However, merger is a subset of keep. I think the best thing to do at this time is to work on sourcing the list and refine the format of the list. Then we can decide whether it should stand alone or be placed into the main article, but in either case, it would be kept. —C.Fred (talk) 01:46, 10 March 2009 (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.