Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dischord Records bands

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. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Dischord Records bands[edit]

With the combination of the Dischord Records catalog and Category:Dischord Records artists, this page seems relatively redundant. The article hasn't been edited in months, and is pretty sparse on encyclopedic content anyways (the whole article only has one complete sentence). Drewcifer (talk) 09:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As lists go, this seems ok to me. The list format highlights redlinked artists that won't appear in the category, and it's much easier to view this information here than scanning through the discography. If it hasn't been edited for months, maybe that's because Dischord haven't released anything by new artists in that time. I don't see how deleting this would help Wikipedia.--Michig (talk) 09:54, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The list is not redundant with the category, as it may include bands that do not (yet) have articles. ~~However, no objection to merging with the catalog page.~~ On second thought, the careful noting of the years each band was associated with Dischord convinces me this is worth keeping as a stand-alone article. Note that items in list or table formats can be just as encyclopedic as prose sentences. Chubbles (talk) 14:54, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - The category is irrelevant; per WP:CLS, duplication between categories and lists isn't sufficient to delete either. However, I just don't see anything here that necessitates a List article separate from the Catalog page - at most, this could be a two- or three-columned section within the main Dischord article. I don't see any sources on the List page, and it's also unclear whether the dates are supposed to be the dates of each band's existence or the dates they released albums on Dischord. Torc2 (talk) 02:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Seems harmless, and the bands are notable. I'd prefer to see the artists catalogued by way of category, however. --kingboyk (talk) 17:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.