Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pavement Music


 * 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   delete. v/r - TP 23:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Pavement Music

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Article does not establish notability and after searching the internet it seems that the article is not source-able. Does not pass WP:ORG or WP:GNG. It is true that the article has links to articles of artists associated with the label but notability is not inherited : "If the organization itself did not receive notice, then the organization is not notable." I was unable to find any sources which make more than a passing mention of Pavement Music. A google news search yields zero results. Article currently consists of a single short unsourced sentence. It seems unlikely that enough information could ever be properly sourced to write more than a couple additional sentences. Half of the sentence in the article is about the label having been absorbed into another label which was recently deleted for lack of notability. Even the official website linked in the article has literally zero information, just an under construction warning. Topic will never acquire notability because the label is defunct. Also its been more than 5 years since the article was created. - Metal lunchbox (talk) 19:31, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 19:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 14:10, 24 August 2011 (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) 00:53, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 16:38, 6 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:GNG. google news archive shows nothing indepth. LibStar (talk) 23:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep I think this article is acceptable as a list of artists, which is just about all it is. If I were interested in one or more of these bands, this article would provide a useful way to discover their label mates. Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 05:42, 8 September 2011 (UTC) — Hobbes Goodyear (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * please provide evidence of sources to meet WP:GNG. LibStar (talk) 05:56, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * My claim is that the article is valid as a list, not on the basis of the notability of the label as a business or organization. As a list, I don't think there is a notability issue, as all of the artists on the list save two are linked to existing Wikipedia articles that are, on cursory examination, respectable. Even the remaining two are listed in allmusic.com and have reviewed albums there. If the title of this article were "List of Pavement Music Artists", would there still be a notability issue? --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 01:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a category would be more appropriate for the purpose you describe, just finding related articles. - Metal lunchbox (talk) 02:26, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Could be, but then would require a template change and updates to all the associated pages. And is there a good way with categories to cope with valid list members that don't have a Wikipedia entry? --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 12:21, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:GNG. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 13:23, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
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