Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CATS (Original London Cast Recording)

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 merge to Cats (musical). The consensus is clearly that this should not be kept as a stand-alone article. Any useable material can be merged into the article about the musical itself, as per the suggestion by Peterkingiron PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 05:35, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CATS (Original London Cast Recording)[edit]

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Article for album lacking independent notability. Note that this article is very specifically about a 1998 double cd release, not an early 80s album. Lack independent coverage in reliable sources, current sourcing is a shop and a listing. Lack reviews, charting, awards. Notability tag was removed without real improvement with a pointy revert [1]. Re-adding a spam link does not show notability. Shops are not reliable sources. A search found no better sources. (the credits seems to be a straight copy-paste from the copyrighted discogs source.) duffbeerforme (talk) 03:06, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: It looks like this was a recording of the 1981 cast and was released (or re-released) in 1990, 1998, and 2005. It looks like there might be some notability here, since it apparently won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Cast Album. ([2]) I found mention of it behind a paywall in Google search here. This might just need to be cleaned up to refer to the entire range of releases and not just the re-release in 1998. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:03, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I'm having trouble finding non-primary sources for thsi since the Grammy page only shows that the Broadway cast won a Grammy in 1983. The official Grammy website shows that Dreamgirls won the Grammy for that year, although I do find some mentions of the recording getting the Grammy in semi-unreliable places such as this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:18, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Here's another source, this one from CNN, but given that this is the most reliable source I can find and they're quoting someone else... it makes me equally as suspicious. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:22, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Undecided. If someone can find more coverage, then I'm willing to change my vote. The problem here is that there's so little out there that is verifiable about this particular recording. I'm 99% certain that this has been the same 1981 recording that has been re-mastered and re-packaged in various formats, but I can't guarantee that. If it is, then there is evidence of it charting in Austria at position 7 and remaining in the charts for several months. I'm also finding mention of it hitting platinum in the UK, but I can't verify that in any RS. At this point it might be better to just create a subsection in the main article for any and all cast recordings and merge the pertinent material there. It does merit a mention, but the problem is whether or not there's enough verified information to where it merits its own article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:54, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:54, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Cats (musical). I note that that article deals with positions reached in album charts. That surely refers to an album, not the stage musical itself. Peterkingiron (talk) 13:54, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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