Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virtual record

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 15:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Virtual record

The terms "virtual record" and "virtual album" are neologisms coined by the one artist mentioned in the article header. Yahoo and Google searches show results for each term, but most, if not all of the results use the terms to mean something else. Virtual album hits mainly refer to photo albums, while virtual record hits refer to music, but not specifically to albums only availble online - some hit "virtual record labels" and some refer to "virtual records" as any digital version of an album (whether it is released in CD for as well or not). While the list of internet-only albums is a fair list, the actual purpose of the article, to define the terms "virtual album"/"virtual record" is the problem.

Google: virtual album | Google: virtual record |Yahoo: virtual album | Yahoo: virtual record

(Delete as per nom) TheHYPO 13:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

• Unfortunate title, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Keep as the title, while not perhaps the preferred nomenclature, does convey reasonably well the article's purpose. Allon FambrizziAllon Fambrizzi

I should note that the article is being used as a reference on pages for such albums which is what caught my attention. Album types are being changed to "virtual album" and "virtual album" is being replaced in the intro paragraph of the articles, while it is pretty unnecessary since almost every such article also includes the description that the albums can only be downloaded(such as most of the iTunes Originals articles) which to me is a problem since the term is not recognization by most people and isn't even a real term that is recognized by the industry or public - it's simply a term that this one artist coined (the person who created this article seems to be a fan and also created the article for the same artist's virtual album). Perhaps the article should be moved instead to List of downloadable-only albums or something like that, but I think that references to the terms virtual album and virtual record don't belong on wikipedia since they are not actual terms recognized by the public or any official music body that I can find. TheHYPO 21:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as not meeting WP:NEO. William Pietri 22:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as one person's attempt to popularize a neologism. Danny Lilithborne 00:05, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per the comments by the three people above me. My Alt Account 10:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't mind the neologism, but it seems a pretty unmaintainable list, and not encyclopedic. Regards, Ben Aveling 09:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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