Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Back Yard Recordings (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 17:25, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Back Yard Recordings[edit]

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NCORP fail. Unsourced since 2008. Article created by account Backyardrecordings . This is the second AfD; the first garnered no discussion. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:58, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 17:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 17:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 17:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Rewrite. Has significant former clients, but not in itself WP:Notable. Possible conflict of interest also makes it lean more towards deletion. PoliceSheep99 (talk) 17:15, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:NCORP. It's true that the Gossip gave the label some commercial success in 2006 with "Standing in the Way of Control" and a few other singles, but that seems to have been the label's moment in the sun, and the only other chart hit I can find is one song by Seelenluft which reached number 70 in the UK – most of the other acts are notable, but they had their chart successes with other labels, not with Back Yard. There doesn't seem to be any in-depth coverage about the label itself, and I strongly suspect that it ceased trading in 2012, as I can't find any releases or social media posts/tweets from the label after this date. Richard3120 (talk) 22:13, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - although the label lists a number of notable artists, I believe the label fails NMUSIC#5 because:

The Similou doesn't mention the label at all in the article, and is of dubious notability itself
Dega Breaks is of highly dubious notability, in fact it seems the biggest claim to notability is that is signed to Back Yard
Although Chromeo lists Back Yard as one of their labels, the label does not appear in their discography.
Ali Love is unsourced, but since it charted it is likely a notable band. So this kinda-sorta-maybe might help towards NMUSIC#5
Wiley (musician) does not even mention the label
Tyson is non-notable, it just links to the disambiguation page
Gossip (band) is notable, but only appears on Back Yard as a remix.

Therefore this label does not have a "roster of performers, many of whome are independently notable" and is not one of the "more important independent labels." My search for sources via Google, Google News, and newspapers.com turned up nothing, appears to fail GNG. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 14:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

78.26: this is exactly the issue... Wiley, Chromeo and Ali Love are all notable artists, but none of them were signed to Back Yard when they attained their notability and chart success. The only band who was is Gossip. Richard3120 (talk) 21:45, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Is it genrally accepted here in the music discussions that if a label signs a notable artist, the label is notable? Because that goes against WP:NOTINHERITED. WP:NMUSIC #5 is also referenced above in terms of contribution to the label's notability, but it is a actually a notability guideline for the song, not the label.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 21:53, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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