Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alabama-Halle

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Mediran (t • c) 00:10, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alabama-Halle[edit]

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Non-notable venue. Non-reliable references. No suggestion of importance whatsoever. Author has been advised that the notability guidelines in English Wikipedia is very different than German Wikipedia (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

keep it says in the notability guidlines that notability is not temperary. This venue once had mass coverage in the 1980s when top musical acts performed there. Evangp (talk) 10:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — From my perspective, this venue meets the general notability threshold. A lot of famous rock/metal acts have performed there, including Slayer, R.E.M., Anthrax, The Cult, The Smashing Pumpkins, Motörhead, the Ramones, Manowar, Nazareth, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marillion, The Cure, Uriah Heep, New Order, Depeche Mode, King Crimson, the Dead Kennedys, etc. That, as well as this Google search, leads me to conclude that there should be plenty of reliable sources that can be used in this article. It's a stub, but I think it can be kept. Kurtis ^(talk) 11:24, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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- Comment "Setlist.fm" is a wiki, it can be edited by anyone - so it is unsuitable as a reference. 88.104.27.2 (talk) 14:30, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The German article has an excellent reference, an article in Der Spiegel entirely about the place, and I also found an article in Die Zeit, plus several mentions of performers appearing there. I've expanded and corrected the article based on both the de.wikipedia article and the references I've added (the place closed in 1988; the nightclub is just using the name; and a popular TV show was broadcast from there until the year it closed) and I believe it now demonstrates notability. There is probably quite a lot more news coverage to be found, including of the emergency response exercise using the condemned buildings that is mentioned in the de.wikipedia article. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:22, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Yngvadottir, notability now clearly established.--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. TY Yngvadottir. Drmies (talk) 01:29, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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