- Number One with a Bullet (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (restore|cache|AfD)
No consensus was reached upon closing the discussion, but the vote was 5-4 to keep. Bensin (talk) 21:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse deletion (as closing administrator) AfD is not a vote. The strength of argument for the keeps was weak; all were either not based in policy at all, or were based on a single source constituting verifiable context for notability. That source does not provide context to establish notability of the subject of the article, but rather gives it an essentially trivial mention. As well, the requester has the count wrong anyway, it was 5-4 in favor of delete. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 22:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- There were 5 keep votes and 4 deletes, JFire switched to weak keep. Did you read the discussion before you closed it? Catchpole (talk) 23:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Do you assume that administrators read discussions before they close them, or do you assume the opposite? Try having a quick a read over WP:AGF, it's mad good stuff! And please also go re-read the AFD... where do you count User:B. Wolterding? I think he meant to delete it, since he nominated it, what do you think? That would make the count 5:5. But, as I said, AFD is not a vote. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 23:32, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:MUSIC#Albums says:
In general, if the musician or ensemble that recorded an album is considered notable, then officially released albums may have sufficient notability to have individual articles on Wikipedia.
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- Each and every one of the 15 performers on the album are notable songwriters and there are articles on Wikipedia for (if not all then very close to) every one of them. The songwriters perform their own songs, notable songs that also are covered on articles on Wikipedia. Notability is thus not a problem.
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- Wikipedia:MUSIC#Albums:
Individual articles on albums should include independent coverage. Demos, mixtapes, bootlegs, promo-only, and unreleased albums are in general not notable; however, they may be notable if they have significant independent coverage in reliable sources.
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- Where "significant" not necessarily refers to the amout of coverage. The album is mentioned in trustworthy media so it exists, but it is the notability of the performers merits the album an article.--Bensin (talk) 10:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- If an intersection has a stop sign, all cars approaching from that direction should stop. Therefore, since this pool has a no swimming sign, all people who walk on the street across the parking lot from it should walk slowly. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 14:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- In what way is that comment related to this discussion? --Bensin (talk) 19:29, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Ask a friend or neighbor to explain it to you. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 20:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- You wrote it. Why don't you explain it? --Bensin (talk) 21:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- I can't... I'm allergic. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 21:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse. Based on the arguements, the close is reasonable. The source provided in the AfD isn't strong enough to satisfy WP:N, and I'm pretty sure that compilations fall under the "mixtapes" mentioned in WP:MUSIC#Albums as not generally notable. If you can find better sources, feel free to recreate it. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 23:01, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn WP:N isn't generally a guideline worth following in my experience. The article met our core policies, let's retain it. Catchpole (talk) 23:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse - Proper close as failing both WP:V (only one source) and WP:N. -- Kesh (talk) 00:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- The number of sources has nothing to do with whether the information in the article is verifiable, for which primary sources are sufficient. It is trivial to verify this article. Catchpole (talk) 13:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse For the time being, as it just doesn't fit with notability. AfD seems to be alright as well. Jmlk17 01:59, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse with a bullet. Consensus that underpins policy is more reliable than the "consensus" represented by a few people voting at AfD. Guy (Help!) 11:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse The closing admin made the correct decision. Captain panda 20:01, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn, there was no consensus in that AFD and WP:N is not, and never will be, a policy. --Pixelface (talk) 18:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse per jerry Frank Anchor Talk to me (R-OH) 00:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse deletion, about time albums started getting held to sourcing requirements instead of being allowed to "inherit" notability. Should've been that way all along. There isn't sufficient sourcing here for an article, so the article must go. Nothing else to that story. Seraphimblade Talk to me 04:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Endorse deletion - Compilation albums are so common that allowing them to inherit notability from the bands it contains is rather bad precedent to set. -Halo (talk) 06:11, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Strongly endorse - for the reasons laid out by Seraphimblade and Halo. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:28, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn I see the closer as substituting his own standard for adequate sourcing, for the standards of the participants in the AfD. Furthermore, many people realize that sources for the pre-internet era, even 1988, can be hard to turn up on Google, and have a less demanding stance than they would had the album been released last year, say. If the closer didn't want to close the AfD as keep or no consensus, he should have added his opinion to the discussion, explaining why he wasn't impressed by the sourcing. --Groggy Dice T | C 01:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- Overturn as no consensus. A random non-notable album doesn't get this kind of mention from the NYTimes. Closer asks for multiple sources, but is there anything else (in the article) to source? It was a decent stub already, with good reference from NYTimes, which is a supposedly reliable source. Wikipedia articles need enough, not ample source(s) in order to survive. Further, as Groggy Dice said, there was decidedly no consensus for deletion; if the closer didn't feel one source was enough, they should have weighed in the debate with their views, not close it as an outright deletion. It should also be noted that this article did not fail WP:V in any sense, WP:V only requires that "material challenged or likely to be challenged" be sourced; the page in question contained no unsourced controversial info, thus no policy violation. WP:N, on the other hand, is only a prescriptive guideline, and there are strong arguments from both side concerning whether the article met WP:N or not. This is a no consensus. --PeaceNT (talk) 15:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
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- The NYTimes article was not about this record. It was about the record industry, and it only gives a trivial, yet enthusiastic, mention to the record. The NYT article does not provide any verifiability for material that was actually in the our article. It could only be used as verification that one newspaper writer liked it and thinks others will as well. Not a valid source, and it was the only one. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 18:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- In the New York Times article Jon Pareles, the chief music critic, writes about the album in no less than three paragraphs. That hardly constitutes a trivial mention, but is a valid source if anything. --Bensin (talk) 23:25, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Nah, as we discussed at great length on my talk page, the critic is making a point about the entire industry and states that a certain person is unique, and he goes into huge details about this person. He then obligatorily mentions that this album is another similar example of one aspect of what he said about the other guy. He does not offer any encyclopedic details about the album, like sales, airplay, why the album has the particular songs on it that it does, or anything of value to our article. He just says that it is sure to be a delight to listeners. He gives it a passing mention in an article dedicated to a completely different subject altogether. It is most definatly not> a review of this album, as you seem to suggest. "source" implies that it contains content that we use, not that its a really famous person who happens to mention it. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 00:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- Three paragraphs is not a passing mention. Neither is it a review, and not in any way did I imply that it was. As for the rest of the "content that we use", I'm sure that the jacket of the record itself provides a detailed enough tracklisting. --Bensin (talk) 15:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- No, the NYT piece didn't discuss sales or airplay, but many album reviews and articles don't, so that's not indispensable. And it actually does discuss "why the album has the particular songs on it that it does." Also, a "passing mention" is maybe a sentence or two, not a couple of paragraphs. What this case boils down to for me is this. Just as BIGNUMBER means that an article with tens of thousands of blog hits may be deleted because there's no "mainstream reliable source," there's also SMALLNUMBER. Lack of massive coverage does not prove something is insignificant; for instance, someone may be influential but choose to work behind the scenes. In this context, the position that the Pareles piece represents recognition by the New York Times is not a slam-dunk keep, but it is reasonable. The retort, that it's just one source and not even the main thrust of the article, also has merit. And if it had persuaded the majority of AFD participants, I couldn't argue with the close. But it didn't, so a debate with two reasonable positions has been settled by your dismissive attitude towards one of them. --Groggy Dice T | C 17:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- "The NYT article does not provide any verifiability for material that was actually in the our article." Sorry, I must disagree. The NYTimes article verifies a quote used in the article, which made it a valid source. The only other piece of info presented in that article is the "track listing" part, which is hardly "material likely to be challenged", thus doesn't need a source, IMHO. If anyone has different views then they can look it up easily at amazon or all music or whatnot. There is absolutely no verifiability issue with this article (it was short, yes, as all verified decent stubs can be. Could you point out something else so controversial that must be verified?), the only thing debatable is notability, in which case, there are a good number of AfD participants who deemed the three-paragraph mention from NYTimes to be notability evidence. I don't think their opinions should be disregarded just because the closer was on a different wavelength. --PeaceNT (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Would you say that this notion of notability you are putting forth here has any community consensus? If so, why would you be pushing this agenda here instead of at WT:N or WP:VP-proposals? Do you expect administrators to ignore guidelines such as WP:N because there is some better way to do things that is not documented anywhere, but well known to you? Administrators closing AFD's need to weigh the arguments posed against policy, guideline, and precedent. If it was about counting the number of participants who want something, then it would be a vote, and we would not need administrators at all... the fine folks upstairs in the development department could just put a vote-counting feature in the server to automatically handle AfD's. Delrev is not the place to try out radical new platforms. Notability is a very important part of what is done in AfD. If you don't like that... go change it first, then come back and enforce what you have changed. Doing it this backwards way is obtuse and not the wiki way. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 17:54, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- "In general, if the musician or ensemble that recorded an album is considered notable, then officially released albums may have sufficient notability to have individual articles on Wikipedia." From Wikipedia:MUSIC#Albums. --Bensin (talk) 20:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
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- This is a demo album, not an officially released album. This means that it is performed by the writers of the songs. Therefore the performers are not notable as performers. The clause you cite is for hit albums by charting groups. If Colin Powell sang happy birthday to his neighbor's dog and I recorded it on my walkman, it would be a recording of a work performed by a notable person, but it would not meet the spirit and intent of the clause you cited, as this article failed to do. And the word "may" is a very special word with a very significant meaning which is not there by accident. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 23:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- You argue that the word "may" be interpreted literally (preferably to your definition), but that the word "album" be interpreted as "hit albums by charting groups" to meet some "spirit and intent" of the policy. You wrote in your post "reply to nonsense" that there are other arenas for debating changes of policies. --Bensin (talk) 00:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Guideline, not policy. And since you quoted the first sentence of the guideline above, let me point out the one you cropped-off:
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Demos, mixtapes, bootlegs, promo-only, and unreleased albums are in general not notable; however, they may be notable if they have significant independent coverage in reliable sources. |
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- Note the words "significant" and "sources" <---- plural. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 02:11, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- The more you've expounded the premises behind your close, the more it confirms for me that you did not judge this AFD with even scales. If you feel that Wikipedia should only have album articles for "hit albums," or that demos by professional songwriters are equivalent to a random celebrity singing to his dog, or that a published compilation of successful demos should not be considered an "officially released" album, those are big assumptions to bring to the table. All of these are propositions that should have been tested in the AFD discussion, not brought out in DRV. Your idea of what constitutes a "passing mention" differs from that of many editors. You oppose inflexible vote-counting, but favor inflexible source-counting. You like admin discretion in deciding AFDs, but dislike any discretion in evaluating guidelines, even though guideline pages specifically give leeway for exceptions. You base some of your arguments on the current "may" wording of the album guideline, even though this language was changed without any real consensus to do so. You interpret the guideline's comment on demos to apply to this album, though a logical inference would be that this clause was meant to prevent innumerable articles on individual demos, not a published album compilation of demos. And I'm not disturbed by the fact that there's only one source at present, because in the reams of dead-paper writing from 1988, there's surely something else that was written about it somewhere. That, combined with the fact that the one source currently is the New York Times, not the Boise Gazette, is enough to make me respect the opinions of those who chose to keep. Groggy Dice T | C 16:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Wow, you know more about me than my mother does, now, aparently. What a quick study! Scary. Did you peruse my other AFD closes and find that this is fairly consistent disruption on my part? Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 19:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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