Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lepakko

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep, sources found. Sr13 is almost Singularity 08:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lepakko

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Not notable club that used to exist in Finland. Tuf-Kat 04:12, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete not enough information to warrent an article. Cacophony 04:40, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I recall hearing about Lepakko when it existed, but I doubt there exists enough encyclopaedic quality information to write an article about it. jni 06:33, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Good thing it was torn down, too. Cleduc 07:48, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Is that your argument for article deletion? The Merciful 11:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Note (just in case): You're replying to the first AfD, made over two and a half years ago. JIP | Talk 09:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

D'oh! Didn't notice that. Makes me wonder why this article has been AfD twice, tough. It's not like the notability status has changed. Oh, well... :) The Merciful 10:54, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete A google search shows up no reliable hits for this subject. Moreover, it is impossible to verify the contents of this article as well. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 05:33, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

That Google search produced for example this: [1]. Quote: As far as I know Lepakko was squatted in the early 80's and hosted many of the most legendary punk shows in Helsinki. The Merciful 11:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Obviously. Jmlk17 06:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep Lepakko was vital part of Finnish youth, rock and punk culture during it's time! Examples:
  • Want to know about Finnish Goth subculture? Then you need to know about Bela Lugosi club which operated in Lepakko.
  • Want to know about the history of Finnish radio? Then you need to know about perhaps the most influental of the first Finnsh commersial radio stations, Radio City, which operated in Lepakko.
  • Want to know about Finnish youth music? Then you need to know about ELMU ry, which means you need to know about Lepakko.
  • Want to know about history of youth activism in Finland? You need to know about Lepakko.

The place could be compared to, say CBGB, in realtion to Finnish culture. All this is really common knowledge in Finnish rock/punk/underground/etc. scene. All this is quite verifiable (tough most of the material in of course in Finnish). Digging trough YLE's archives should yeld plenty of material.

This nomination is obiviously pased on nominator's ignorance on the subject, not on lack of notability of the subject. If people think the article is of insufficient quality, then it should be tagged for expansion, not for deletion. The Merciful 11:19, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Here's two sources: review on a book about the building in the online edition of Helsingin Sanomat (English translation from the international edition of HS) and a 30 minute report from Yle -- NordicStorm (t/c) 13:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - Perfectly notable. --ざくら木 14:01, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - seems notable as regards to Finnish culture. Just needs expansion. --Belovedfreak 15:48, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep, seems to be somewhat notable if in an "underground" way. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 20:20, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as per sources found above. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, Lepakko was a very important place in Finnish culture for over a decade, see the above sources. JIP | Talk 09:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, should have been flagged for expansion. -Yupik 20:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

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