Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony BMG discography


 * 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. JForget 01:04, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Sony BMG discography

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Sony BMG (2004-2008) was one of the big four music companies globally, with dozens of record label operations in the US and UK, and with local repertoire right across the globe. The company "Sony BMG", through its many label groups and record labels, released 1/4 of the world's music in its existence. I don't see how this page can meaningfully capture the ginormous scope that is Sony BMG. Album pages are classified under their respective labels and label categories. This page also starts in the 80s when it wasn't until 2004 that the company was formed as "Sony BMG", and so I automatically removed the few listings under the 80s and 90s. Moreover 90% of the random listings appear to have no connection to the Sony or BMG labels, in fact, other unrelated companies are indicated in brackets. Therefore this page is completely bogus and is an act of deception/vandalism. Imperatore (talk) 21:03, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per nom. Indiscriminate list, would be far too large to maintain, no sources. This was created by the same user who also created Atlantic Records discography, a narrow, clumsy, rap-centric list that was maybe 5% complete and would've been browser-crashingly long if finished. There is also no precedent for such lists to even exist, as they'd be far too wide in scope — should we include Robin Lee's Black Velvet album, released in 1990 and so obscure that Allmusic doesn't even have the track list for it? What about the Zac Brown Band's The Foundation, which is only distributed by Atlantic? This one is probably even worse than the Atlantic one, as Sony BMG owns about eight trillion labels. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:58, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per nom. There are hundreds of releases by Sony BMG and a list of them is not very useful. A category already exists for this type of information. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 23:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as impossibly long and uncompletable. Hairhorn (talk) 06:50, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Delete TenPoundHammer makes a good argument, and given the example of similar previous lists this should be removed. Capitalismojo (talk) 12:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Misleading and terminally incomplete; and even if comprehensively completed would be pretty useless as a source of information. ~ mazca  talk 16:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 17:28, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Label discographies are for labels, not distributors or parent companies.  ReverendWayne (talk) 20:24, 3 August 2009 (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.