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The result was keep. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:39, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Short Stories (Kenny Rogers album)

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Deprodded without comment. Allmusic listing is blank, no non-trivial sources found. Fails WP:NALBUMS. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 20:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. -- Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Originally I had some hard-to-find sources for it, but AllMusic doesn't list it charting anywhere and I don't know if it ever did. If there is no such evidence, it might be delete-worthy. Also, I think it WAS deleted before I saw it, so it was restored so I could try to find my information. Never did, and I'm busy with a couple of other articles now NEway. Also, not sure what TPH refers to as "blank" since the entry is here; two years ago had a picture of the record itself proving the AllMusic listing incorrect; they never fixed it and that picture got lost on a busted laptop (unless I backed it up). Makes me question AllMusic's reliability throughout. CycloneGU (talk) 22:09, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By blank, I mean it has no album cover, review or credits. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 01:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I thought you meant no tracklist. It does have credits for composers and vocals, but apparently AM wants us to pick through the albums for the rest of the details. I found the cover tho. CycloneGU (talk) 15:35, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This isn't really a compilation album at all, and clearly not a generic "greatest hits" album.. It's easy enough to find a source covering the album [1], reporting that this was a rather odd experiment in creating "new" recordings, mixing the artist's original vocals into new instrumental tracks. I don't know quite how to classify this, but it's not the sort of "compilation" we usually dismiss. In the absence of a good reason to punch a hole into a reasonably complete discography for the period involved (there are well-earned gaps in later periods for generic "greatest hits" albums), I'd say keep this.Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 21:52, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep; the Billboard link provided by Hullabaloo Wolfowitz shows that, while the nature of this album isn't completely clear, it at least had some notability back at the time of its release, so we might as well keep it for the sake of keeping the discography as complete as possible, as he mentioned. Kansan (talk) 00:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep both as article creator and in light of the Billboard info. I was wondering whether it was keep-worthy and that suggests it is. CycloneGU (talk) 05:20, 18 April 2011 (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.