Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Little golden records


 * 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   Keep. The consensus below is that sufficient sources do exist to document the company's notability. Eluchil404 (talk) 21:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Little golden records

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This article has been CSD'd twice as a copy-vio. It's now been rewritten in prose, but the article is 100% unreferenced. The creator has a COI, as they work for the company who is relaunching this brand. The article makes some fairly significant claims, and I searched, and searched, and searched for any RS to back them up, but I couldn't find any. I think a likely contributing factor is that the company's history is from the 50's and 60's; long enough back that typical web searches might fail to turn up coverage. But unless there are reliable sources to back up the claims of the article... I thought about merging some info into Little Golden Books and setting a redirect, but the problems with sourcing the claims still remain. Liv it ⇑ Eh?/What? 15:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge to Little Golden Books. Found some book coverage but the Little Golden Books seems to be the big story, and this an offshoot business from it.  - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:19, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I have read thoroughly into your pages and understand the main points for a page to be deleted.(Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:No original research) and the copyright policy (Wikipedia:Copyrights). You are right in that the label is from the 50's and any digital reference are rather hard to find;however, I have found several website and blog posts (Of course I have not included these because I understand they are not viable sources and do not meet the wikipedia requirements.) Little Golden Records was originally a joint venture with Simon & Schuster to supply Little Golden Books with Music, thus Little Golden Records was born. While I did not want to edit a lot to avoid any conflict of interest, I think that this page deserves to be here as a main source of reference to others. Have you had cases in the past where users couldn't find stronger references? If so what did they do? As I've been saying I respect Wikipedia's terms & conditions and don't want to take advantage of them. I was looking off of the Disneyland Records page as a guide to writing and would love to build out the page similar to how they did with the list of all of the vinyls/tapeography etc. You can also find Little Golden Records Tapeography as a reference on the Disneyland Records Wiki Page but I wasn't sure how to include this. Please suggest what you think is the best thing to do. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aliceverse (talk • contribs) 17:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Please note that I have included references as well. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aliceverse (talk • contribs) 21:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep A Google Books search shows significant coverage of this record label in reliable sources such as Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers, The Complete Guide to Vintage Children's Records: Identification & Value Guide, Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way and Christmas Wishes: A Catalog of Vintage Holiday Treats and Treasures. This was clearly a notable record label, as indicated by the highly notable performers of the era who recorded for the label, such as Mitch Miller, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, Hoagy Carmichael, Danny Kaye and Art Carney.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  03:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Yes, this article needs improvement, but Golden Records, as I've renamed the article, is enjoying a revival or sorts.  Go to their official web site to see what I mean. Steelbeard1 (talk) 14:03, 23 February 2012 (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.