Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/430 West Records
The nominator seems to be asking for a referendum on the notability of record labels, having nominated a dozen or so, nearly all of which I believe are worth keeping.  is a silly straitjacket to be judging independent record labels by. Let's think about what makes record labels noteworthy (in the real world). Well, what they do is put out records; people know and care about them because of the music they put out into the world. The story, then, is the artists much more often than the label, and news agencies know this, which is why they very rarely write full articles about labels; in fact, they almost ''never'' do this in comparison with how much they write about musicians. They generally do this only for major labels (whose business is large enough to make the financial papers) and labels which become so venerable and storied as to be iconic (Blue Note Records|Blue Note, Sun Records|Sun, etc.) such that they begin to acquire book-length treatments
— NONE, NONE
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CORP (Wikipedia:Notability)