Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protocol Recordings


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The result was merge to Nicky Romero. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 00:28, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Protocol Recordings

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Not notable vanity label owned by the DJ Nicky Romero, mainly used for his own and associated releases. The sources are largely WP:PRIMARY and do not indicate notability based on reliable sources. The article list the non-reliable Beatport chart. The number of artists appears inflated. I checked the Kelis discography and see no mention of the label. She might have appeared on one of the singles that was released through the label, but that hardly warrants listing her as signed to the roster. Karst (talk) 17:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Netherlands-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:26, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete: fails WP:ORGDEPTH and WP:INHERITORG. As the nominator states, being owned by a famous DJ and releasing records featuring notable musicians does not confer notability on the label itself. Kelis' contribution is guest vocals on a 2013 release by Don Diablo, "Give It Up", but she is NOT signed to the label. Likewise, Calvin Harris and Nile Rodgers have appeared on a couple of tracks as guest artists... in fact the majority of the roster is simply guest artists so it's pure WP:SYNTH. None of the tracks have made a major national chart so they fail WP:NSONG as well. Richard3120 (talk) 13:25, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Nicky Romero. Given that he's notable, his owning a label that has released material by other notable artists is itself encyclopedic. There may actually be nothing to merge but the redirect is still appropriate rather than deletion. Andrewa (talk) 19:01, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Nicky Romero; anything useful can be picked up from the article history, although it's probably not needed. But a redirect may be useful. K.e.coffman (talk) 07:30, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect - This looked notable on its surface due to the artists listed. However, many of these are just collaborations and not signed to the label. Very misleading. I was unable to find anything to satisfy WP:CORPDEPTH and at this point would recommend it be merged into the person article for Nikcy Romero.--CNMall41 (talk) 04:59, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


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