Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Thin Red Line (album)


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The result was   Withdrawn, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:52, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

The Thin Red Line (album)

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Unsourced since creation. WP:BEFORE finds usual download, tracklisting, dicogs, eBay, Amazon, etc. Some recent articles about lead singer's recovery from stroke are only independent WP:RS coverage. No indication of chart success, airplay, or gold certification. Does not pass WP:GNG or WP:NALBUM Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 20:38, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator post 's additions. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:04, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Bearcat, not Bearian...no big worry, just clarifying. Bearcat (talk) 23:05, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * D'oh! Wrong bear-themed user name. Apologies. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:09, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:49, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:49, 30 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep. As this is an album from the 1980s, finding electronic versions of the press that the album received would be difficult. However a search on google books gives us Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic by Christopher Ward, Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine and Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums among others. You have to search using "The Thin Red Line" +Glass Tiger, not "The Thin Red Line (album)". You get more hits across the board with this change, which indicates there's even more out there not available digitally. The album passes WP:NALBUM and it's very easy to find info on chart and sales successes (it charted well and sold well per WP:NALBUM and this can be verified through Billboard and here). It was a major label release and spawned two major hit songs, and with the handful of books I found, plus Billboard it passes WP:GNG. Sources can be added and lacking sources is not a valid reason to delete.  freshacconci  (✉)  21:35, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Snow keep. Obviously notable under the standards generally applied to albums. In addition to the material cited by freshacconci, this album received a best album nomination at the 1986 Juno Awards, and yielded a best new artist nomination for the band at the Grammys. --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:25, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep per Arxiloxos. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:56, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is an album that was released in 1986, which means the sources needed to get it over WP:GNG would not be expected to show up on Google. However, this is the debut album by a band who were massive in their heyday, which spawned an iconic Top 10 single and at least two other more moderate hits that still to this day show up on the Jack FMs of the world once in a while (I already have a "Someday" earworm just from seeing its title, and that wasn't even the megahit) — and as noted, it got a Juno Award nomination for Album of the Year as well. So the notability is quite plainly there, and the sources needed to repair this most certainly do exist — but as expected for a 30-year-old topic, they'll be found in databases rather than open web. I have a course to attend today, so I can't tackle this right away, but I'll take a spin through ProQuest when I get home this evening. Bearcat (talk) 12:43, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:V for these points, as well as the ones made by I agree would support notability.  Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 14:44, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Seven sources added so far from ProQuest, along with one that merely had to be pulled over from the band's article. More are coming as well — I can confirm that the album charted in RPM's album charts, as I get four pages of search results in the RPM database for it. For some reason, however, the actual chart PDFs aren't loading, so I can't verify the peak chart position yet (unfortunately, the database is stupidly structured, so the only way to actually find that is to check each individual chart one by one until you've manually determined the highest position it reached.) Those will be added once I can get through 404land. Bearcat (talk) 22:06, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * RPM chart history now added and sourced. Bearcat (talk) 22:53, 1 June 2017 (UTC)


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