Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Era (album)


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The result was   Nomination withdrawn with leave to speedy renominate. Closing over outstanding delete !vote per WP:IAR. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

The Era (album)

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The album songlist has yet to be officially announced at JVR Music's official website at http://www.jvrmusic.com, nor at any other major websites. Article is referenced entirely by one link, namely a Blogspot post (i.e. a blog entry), that is based on rumour information obtained from Chinese BBS forums. The aformentioned blog website also claimed to have earlier predicted (incorrectly) the name of Jay Chou's 2010 album (as "Cross 十字勳章 (Shi Zi Xun Zhang)"), along with song names and lyrics back in April, which turned out to be a hoax made by a child on a Chinese forum back in November last year, and also claimed to have the "leaked versions" of the hoax songs, which are obviously not by Jay Chou, but rather a Shanzhai imposter fan.

A google search in Chinese for "周杰倫 跨時代 专辑 歌名" gives nothing but either speculative news or forum posts; a google search in English leads to an even bigger dead end. All that is absolutely, concretely confirmed (being announced officially by JVR Music) is the name of the album and the release date.

(Also possibly of interest: Hardcore fan blog post from 2009: OMGZ!!! New 2009 Jay Chou album called CROSS!!!LOLOLOLOL; "News" that claims Jay Chou's album will be called "Cross"; Tianya forum post made in 2009 regarding the "Cross" hoax; Baidu Tieba post made not that long ago, still believing that the new album will be called "Cross"; Google cache of a Baidu Zhidao post made back in 2009, now deleted, regarding Jay's 2009 Album "Cross", which never existed)

And finally, WP:CRYSTALBALL still is an issue, even though the album itself will be released in 10 days time. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 03:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:31, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 05:03, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete unless additional sources come out.  • ɔ   ʃ   →  02:54, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Wait until it's released. This really needs someone au fait with Mandarin(?) to look at the sources, but there are shops listing this as released in 7 days time. If this release date is accepted as accurate, further discussion now would seem to be a complete waste of time. If the release date proves to be wrong, or if it gets no coverage after its release (which seems unlikely) then another AFD may be called for.--Michig (talk) 06:16, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Album to be released tomorrow; accepting retail website as enough verification in good faith, for now. Withdraw nomination. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 12:03, 17 May 2010 (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.