Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A&A Records

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)‎ Geschichte (talk) 09:06, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A&A Records

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The article has no reliable sources, appears to be unworthy of note, lacks any independent coverage, and is not on a topic of great publicity. Ziad0tarek952005 (talk) 18:15, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music, Companies, and Canada. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:22, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, possibly speedy keep. Satisfies GNG easily with significant coverage in many books and periodicals in Google Books, Google Scholar, Google News and the Internet Archive. It is not surprising this satisfies GNG, since it was the largest music retailer in Canada: [1]. To find all the sources, you need to search for both "A&A" (without spaces) and "A & A" (with spaces). Since the nominator removed both the independent reliable sources from the article without any explantion or any apparent good reason [2] [3] and then falsely claimed in this AfD that the article lacked independent reliable sources, and since valid content has been repeatedly removed many times without explantion or any apparent good reason from the article by IPs that geolocate to the country he claims on his userpage to come from (which appear to have been him, judging by their behaviour), and there have been complaints of blatant vandalism by other editors both for his account [4] and those IPs [5] [6], I think we might be able to infer that this nomination has been made for the purpose of vandalism and is a candidate for criteria 2 of WP:SK. James500 (talk) 21:34, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:57, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am in support to Keep this article. Full In-depth stories found on some old news papers; [7] New Changes are in the wind for store Alice & Albert started and [8] A&A Records purchase may start media empire.. Raj Shri21 (talk) 11:23, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Article does need some improvement, but this was absolutely a prominent retailer in Canada in its era, and absolutely does have a lot of reliable source coverage that can be retrieved from archiving sites like ProQuest and newspapers.com — and I do further note that the nominator claimed that the article has no sources only after attempting to remove the sources that were already in it, meaning that there's something else going on here besides concern for Wikipedia's quality standards. Bearcat (talk) 15:49, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Passes GNG. Pretty easy call, actually. Carrite (talk) 15:54, 27 July 2025 (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.