Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louie Louie discography
Wow! A lot of work. I would like some clarification. We are discussing merging and redirecting to preserve the history. This is what seems to be many hundreds of links to Youtube, images from Discog, youtube, Amazon, SoundCloud, and no telling where else. With all due respect, it would take an equally exhaustive pile of work to check all these references. We can |assume all the faith available but youtube should be used with caution because of possible |copyright issues, and this would be more so just for inclusion as an xternal links|external link, so would be (it would seem) far more critical as a reference. I would think many instances would fail our most basic sourcing policies and guidelines. I would not dream of tackling a source review but know we have certain policies and guidelines that indicate there could be possible violations. Looking over ,  Wikipedia:External links#Restrictions on linking, Wikipedia:External links#Links normally to be avoided, Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites and Wikipedia:Copyrights, it does appear this list lands in the middle of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Wikipedia:Video links has more views than many of these videos but the bottom line is: Can we blanket accept that every link has been verified not to be copyright violations or that can be used according to fair use, Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria? This is 40 steps up from allowing or accepting some "occasional use" where links have been checked. If there are only a couple of concerns I think some caution should be advised and certainly deserving some discussion
— User:Otr500, 08:40, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ASSUME||WP:COPYVIO||WP:E||WP:YOUTUBE (Wikipedia:Assume good faith)