Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afternoon Records (3rd nomination)
as before. CORP neither is nor should be the default SNG for record labels, and as I have noted many times,  (which is a much more commonsensical place to look for guidance on the importance of music-related topics) has language suggesting how to judge the importance of labels. The label's roster included output from a number of noteworthy artists (Haley Bonar, We Shot the Moon, Bad Bad Hats, Now, Now|Now Now, John Vanderslice, and others); the very idea that we might want to try and convert this into a list article (which, for all intents and purposes, many label articles more or less are, and sensibly so) indicates that there is encyclopedic interest in noting the tie that binds these artists together. Without this article, we lose the ability to tell that encyclopedic story and the collective impact that the label, by releasing music from these musicians, had on art and culture. NOTINHERITED is a red herring here; this was ably addressed by 78.26 in the 2nd deletion (mind you, this article has been nominated for deletion three times in ten days). We have at least three minimally viable sources; the ''MPR'' piece is substantial, the ''Minnesota Daily'' I addressed in AfD2, and the ''Billboard'' piece is an invited interview conducted by a Billboard editor. It's justifiably considered one of the more important indie labels in the sense used at 
— User:Chubbles, 19:52, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:MUSIC (Wikipedia:Notability)