Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weapons (Rough Trade album)


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The result was   redirect to Rough Trade (band). King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:43, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Weapons (Rough Trade album)

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Appears to fail WP:NALBUMS and WP:GNG by article's own admission. --Animalparty-- (talk) 00:25, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete There's a very brief AllMusic review. And possibly there are sources in 1980s Canadian print music magazines. But right now, no evidence of notability. It's not even listed on Weapon (disambiguation). Show me some in-depth reviews, and we can reconsider. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:47, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, Rough Trade are certainly a notable band, and I find it difficult to believe that there aren't printed reviews and the like out there, which aren't available on the Internet due to the time period they would have come out. Wouldn't oppose a merge to a Rough Trade discography article though.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:43, 18 May 2014 (UTC).
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔  05:25, 20 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I've added a reference to the article, but it's clearly not enough by itself. I searched the ProQuest databases for both the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and while I found plenty of articles about the band which made passing mention of this album itself, I found almost no coverage whatsoever of the album in its own right (unless you count its appearance in some advertisements for record stores, which I don't.) The fact that a band is notable does not mean that every album they recorded automatically needs to have its own independent article (notability is not inherited and all of that), and both of the albums that came after this one have never actually had articles at all — so while I agree that it could be a valid article topic in principle if the sources are there, there's not much value in keeping it in a poorly-referenced state just because better referencing might eventually be possible. Redirect to Rough Trade (band); no prejudice against future recreation if somebody can actually locate solid sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 22:03, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
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