Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sheet music publishers


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The result was delete. Consensus is that this information is better served as a category, which already exists. I have included the category in the "see also" section of Sheet music. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

List of sheet music publishers

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Huge indiscriminate list of almost completely red wikilinks. Not useful as an encyclopedia article, most redlinks seem not notable enough to deserve their own articles. Those few valid wikilinks can easily be served by a category, rather than a list. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as a big red link farm. The few that aren't red links (I love saying red link, red link, red link) can be converted to a category. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 00:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Convert to category. As said before, due to the red-links. Basketball  110   what famous people say  ♣ 00:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As the nominator, I think that's a good idea, provided that the few valid links in there all share a common category. I just redirected List of online music databases with the same rationale. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:54, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Update: Oh, my. Many of the blue links don't even link to sheet music publishers! I see links to places, bios, and disambiguation pages. Those that actually link to articles about sheet music publishers are already in the category Category:Publishers of sheet music, so that would be a good redirect. How do I go about closing this AfD so the change can be made? ~Amatulić (talk) 00:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete We're not a site for indiscriminate information. If this article is to be kept, it most only be notable sheet music publishers. That being said, I advocate the deletion of this article as it is. However, if fixed (though I doubt that will happen), it should be kept. But still, delete. MalwareSmarts (talk) 01:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Any objection to simply redirecting the page to Category:Publishers of sheet music? Every legitimate link in the article already belongs to that category. ~Amatulić (talk) 02:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it acceptable to redirect from article space to a category? Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 02:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure cross-namespace redirects are unacceptable. MalwareSmarts (talk) 02:30, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: Wikipedia is not a business directory or a web directory.  Our lists are designed for novel organizations of information that show hidden relationships.  Categories are for things like this.  A list like this is a redlink farm.  Utgard Loki (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - the advantage of a list in this context (indeed its only value) is to identify articles that ought to be written. You cannot put redlink items in a category.  However the list should be pruned of all NN publishers.  Peterkingiron (talk) 01:22, 10 March 2008 (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.