Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xenakis Ensemble

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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 (non-admin closure), per WP:SNOW. ChetblongTalkSign 19:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Xenakis Ensemble

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Does not meet WP:MUSIC. No sources. Nothing notble. Delete Metal Head (talk) 03:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Strong keep - As an editor working to improve articles related to contemporary classical music, an article on a specialist ensemble (with four CDs on major labels) focusing on performances and recordings of the music of Iannis Xenakis, one of the top five world composers of the second half of the 20th century, is certainly something we should have here. Such a disruptive tagging does a disservice to our users. Four CDs on major labels and being one of the most notable ensembles performing contemporary classical music easily satisfies WP's notability requirements for musicicians, so the tagger does not seem to show familiarity even with our own notability guidelines. Improve, don't delete. Badagnani (talk) 04:22, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Discography shows notability, and there's enough information to merit its own article (rather than being merged with Iannis Xenakis. SingCal (talk) 05:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - seems to meet notability. matt91486 (talk) 06:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Tagger clearly does not know what he/she is talking about. It would be well, however, to provide some better sources than mere external links.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 07:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment This is to Jerome. I nominated this when it was a "baby" article. It had no sources. It had no notability whatsoever. I do plan on taking this off of AfD now.(though, i still cannot find much about them online.)Undeath (talk) 13:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Seems notable within its niche market. If the external links were linked instead as footnotes using the <ref> and {reflist} tags instead, the perceived issue would vanish. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:05, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment I would say "be diminished", rather than "vanish". Under Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources, external links, especially to "self-published" material such as the subject's own website, are not as reliable as one might wish. Still, it is a start.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 18:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- -- pb30<talk> 18:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.