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David Mead's sixth and seventh albums — Dudes (2011) and Cobra Pumps (2019), respectively — were self-released, which means that press coverage and reviews were harder to come by than when he was on labels like RCA earlier in his career. Until January of this year, Mead's Wikipedia page contained few citations, and the same was true of the pages for his pre-2011 albums. I've attempted to remedy that situation, as you'll see in the various pages' "View history" tabs, and will continue to do so, and I created pages for Dudes and Cobra Pumps so that his entire discography is represented. In my opinion, these pages shouldn't be deleted or "redirected" to Mead's page. I promise I'm not trying to be difficult.
Addred85 (
talk)
13:26, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Addred85reply
Redirect to
David Mead (musician)#Discography. My search found only blogs, user-generated content, and other unreliable sources. This album does not appear to meet
WP:NALBUM or the
GNG, although a redirect to Mead's article is a reasonable (and
cheap)
alternative to deletion. I understand that the lack of sourcing may be due to the self-published nature of the album, but coverage in reliable sources is really the only metric we have to gauge whether something belongs in the encyclopedia: without it, it unfortunately just isn't possible to write an article that meets our guidelines.
Extraordinary Writ (
talk)
05:57, 18 March 2022 (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.
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.
David Mead's sixth and seventh albums — Dudes (2011) and Cobra Pumps (2019), respectively — were self-released, which means that press coverage and reviews were harder to come by than when he was on labels like RCA earlier in his career. Until January of this year, Mead's Wikipedia page contained few citations, and the same was true of the pages for his pre-2011 albums. I've attempted to remedy that situation, as you'll see in the various pages' "View history" tabs, and will continue to do so, and I created pages for Dudes and Cobra Pumps so that his entire discography is represented. In my opinion, these pages shouldn't be deleted or "redirected" to Mead's page. I promise I'm not trying to be difficult.
Addred85 (
talk)
13:26, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Addred85reply
Redirect to
David Mead (musician)#Discography. My search found only blogs, user-generated content, and other unreliable sources. This album does not appear to meet
WP:NALBUM or the
GNG, although a redirect to Mead's article is a reasonable (and
cheap)
alternative to deletion. I understand that the lack of sourcing may be due to the self-published nature of the album, but coverage in reliable sources is really the only metric we have to gauge whether something belongs in the encyclopedia: without it, it unfortunately just isn't possible to write an article that meets our guidelines.
Extraordinary Writ (
talk)
05:57, 18 March 2022 (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.