Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stone marimba

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 '. Please relist individually; it might lead to a clear conclusion about at least some of them DGG' ( talk ) 21:59, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stone marimba

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Next bunch of a spam cluster. Previous group deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Viscount Bells.

No real claim to notability. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Mix of bad sources, original research, linkspamming and promotion. Refs used are not independent reliable sources and include multiple links to article creators business. These are not really articles about the instrument but are coatracks to talk about "Percussion legend Emil Richards" duffbeerforme (talk) 02:44, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. --- Later Days! Cameron11598 (Talk) 03:19, 15 December 2012 (UTC) [reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Cheers, Riley 00:25, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran (t • c) 00:36, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep - Maybe look for better citations. An instrument is worth covering. If you can't find these resources I'd gladly change my vote to merge into the Marimba article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrmoustache14 (talk • contribs)
Delete As with the other referenced AFD, these are essentially advertisements for the guy's business. If they had some historical or musicological value then sure, maybe even a merge or two. But they are instruments that have been created to generate special effects once or twice; beyond that they have no standalone notability. The articles look interesting and I appreciate that the creator has licensed the images and all, but Wikipedia is not a collection of discriminate one-time use custom instruments offered for rent by a shop in L.A. Since they have fairly uncommon names it's easy to see how notable they aren't. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 02:56, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep some, delete others. I think these need to be considered individually, rather than as a batch. Those that have been invented by or for Emil Richards should probably be deleted or merged into the Emil Richards article, but at least one, Lujon (musical instrument), has a reasonably well-established history, not least through its use in the score of Luciano Berio's Circles (1960), and its earlier use in jazz by John Lewis and Shelley Manne. Admittedly none of this is mentioned in the article, so it needs a major re-write, with the Emil Richards promotional stuff removed or toned down. --Deskford (talk) 02:30, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Song bells were also manufactured long before Emil Richards was born, so I think that article is probably worth saving / re-writing. Not sure about the rest. --Deskford (talk) 02:51, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 00:34, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 03:36, 5 January 2013 (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.