Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westlake Recording Studios


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The result was keep. John254 00:55, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Westlake Recording Studios

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blatant advertisement; questionable notability -- Gmatsuda (talk) 12:37, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as G11 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 12:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Weak keep Cruftacious--and for a supposedly top-tier studio, there's little nontrivial coverage to speak of. If there's an article in this, I don't see it. Blueboy96 14:25, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Change to weak keep, per evidence from Jason Quinn. Article needs work, though--along with some nontrivial sourcing. Blueboy96 14:00, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * undecided keep - Article as currently written seems to serve more as an advertisement than an article on an encyclopedia-worthy company. The company seems to do decent business but so does my uncle's above-ground pool store. The reason for my unsure is the sentence, " [Studio A at Westlake Recording Studios] was where Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was recorded. Recording one of the biggest albums of all time is about as important of a feat that a recording studio can have, no? If true, I could be convinced this article is worthy. Notified the article's creator. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It appears true that the Thriller album was recorded there. Also Jagged Little Pill among others. I say Thriller alone makes this place notable. The article is certainly poorly written and needs to be improved. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:22, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:03, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: Click on What links here - article needs working on but is otherwise sound.Lame Name (talk) 08:36, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, but needs a wholesale rewrite. In addition to Jason Quinn's comments above, this book credits it (under the previous name Westlake Audio) as "one of the first big commercial efforts to produce acoustically standardised 'interchangeable' rooms", and says it spawned a whole class of "Westlake-style rooms" at other studios in the late 1970s. That all sounds vaguely notable for someone interested in the history of recording studios. --Delirium (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


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