Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Gallery (disco)


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The result was speedy keep per WP:SK. North America1000 05:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

The Gallery (disco)

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Possible merge/redirect (but to which of the brothers?) Doesn't appear to be WP:NOTABLE and has been in CAT:NN for 12 years. Boleyn (talk) 14:11, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:NEXIST. The Gallery was very important to the history of 1970s disco culture. Besides the sources already used in the article, including the first item on the list below, there's also all the rest of the items listed below.
 * Beyond the Hustle: Seventies Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer by Tim Lawrence, University of Illinois Press (2009)
 * Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (2012)
 * Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Grove Atlantic (2014)
 * Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro, Faber and Faber (2005)
 * Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2004)
 * Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2009)
 * The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Black Cat (2010)
 * Disco: The Music, The Times, The Era by Johnny Morgan, Sterling (2011)
 * "'The 1970s club scene in New York was special': Nicky Siano" by Will Coldwell, The Guardian (Apr 7, 2017)
 * "You Better Work!": Underground Dance Music in New York by Kai Fikentscher, Wesleyan University Press (2000)
 * "Nicky Siano on disco, drugs and DJing at Studio 54", The Vinyl Factory
 * "Nicky Siano on the Gallery and the Dark Days of Disco", DJHistory.com
 * "Welcome to The Gallery!", Standard Hotels
 * I think this is enough to demonstrate notability. I'll post these sources on the article page in a Further reading section, so that people who want to improve the articles can use them. -- Toughpigs (talk) 18:31, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - The underground analogue to Studio 54...perhaps there wouldn't have been a Studio 54 without The Gallery. Caro7200 (talk) 20:05, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination oer convincing, insightful comments above. Boleyn (talk) 07:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)


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