Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpinMedia

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 MRC (company). Barkeep49 (talk) 18:05, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SpinMedia

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This page should either be deleted or merged to Spin (magazine). This short-lived media holding company is not independently notable. While founded in 1999 as a non-notable blog, the company really notably existed for only 4 years when it owned a number of magazines that have their own articles. There is really no need for this separate article and not enough source material for an independent article. All of this can duly be covered in the respective articles, especially in Spin (magazine). --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: With MRC. I do not concur with the suggestion of merging the article in question to Spin (magazine) since it is a collective entity and not a single publisher of mass media. The article contains reliable sources and barely meets WP:SIGCOV, however, it should be merged with the latest entity that purchased it, which I believe is Billboard Media Group, part of MRC, as the sources state. Spin is no longer a part of SpinMedia. If there are archived, cached copies of the Billboard links that are dead, and they are added to the article, it may meet the criteria for notability and the article may avoid deletion. Multi7001 (talk) 00:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:29, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

merge to Spin (magazine). TolWol56 (talk) 23:44, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep and oppose merge to Spin (magazine) per well reasoned comments by Multi7001. Ultimately, I don't think there is a good merge target for the article and the content provides an important history of several notable publications which are widely used as sources in music articles on wikipedia. It's of value to our readers to know about the publishers of the resources we use to source our articles. Further, splitting out the content to multiple articles isn't really possible for attribution purposes. We can't redirect to multiple places, so I think keeping is the best choice.4meter4 (talk) 02:37, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:12, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to MRC per ATD-R; lacks sufficient SIGCOV to warrant an independent article. ——Serial 13:50, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to MRC (company) as above since the topic company fails to meet the criteria for establishing notability in its own right. HighKing 21:15, 8 November 2021 (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.