Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of record labels (3rd nomination)


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The result was keep. (Non-admin closure)  Little Mountain  5   00:40, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

List of record labels
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Better suited as a category, considering the first line of the page "This is a list of notable record labels." Kwsn  (Ni!)  00:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. As noted in previous discussions, you can't put redlinks into a category. I would however suggest that these lists should be expanded into tables to include things like style of music and location for each label - something that categories cannot do. Grutness...wha?  00:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 02:11, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep- As I keep having to say, being redundant to a category is NOT a reason for deletion. And Grutness's ideas for improvement have merit. Umbralcorax (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - AGAIN! For reasons previously stated - categories can't hold redlinks. The top level category of Category:Record labels is sub-divided by country, genre, etc, making it impossible for anyone to easily get a list of all record labels in one place.  As per Grutness, these lists can be expanded into a table format to include things such as country, genre, year founded, etc, etc. 08:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep According to WP:CLN lists and categories should coexist, especially if they can fulfill functions that complement each other. Grutness' idea therefore has merit. - Mgm|(talk) 13:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per above and previous discussion. Please note that the previous AfD nomination was made just last month. -- Stephen Gilbert (talk) 18:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lists serve a different purpose to categories.--Michig (talk) 22:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


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