Talk:Ilaiyaraaja 2016

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as having no substantive content, because this is an article listing this year's released films of a composer (in this case Ilaiyaraaja). That he has a separate page for each year is because he has composed for a record 1000+ films (possibly the only composer to ever do that!) and it only makes sense to preserve his yearly outputs in separate pages. For instance, his discography (of which this page is a part of) in the 1980s often has 50+ films in a single year done single handedly by him! So it is perfectly reasonable to have his prolific years listed in a separate page each. (1980-1990 alone saw him compose original soundtracks for 400 films!) So even if some of his recent years (and maybe this year too as we'd know as the year goes along) does not have a lot of output, it is reasonable to have a separate page for 2016 to maintain consistency. (as you may observe from the Year Wise Statistics Box which I've just added to this page. This is genuinely a part of a historic oeuvre, the likes of which Indian cinema is unlikely to see again.) And it is only one day into 2016 today. He has had a film in Telugu (Abbayitho Ammayi) releasing today. So starting this page is only earnest on the part of fans wanting to maintain up to date records of his works. I'm sure that through this year, this page will keep adding details on films with more references and will become a pretty authentic page. It is unfair to delete this page based on 1 day's trail when this is a page to keep track of the whole year. Wait till December 31, 2016 (or at least till the end of June 2016) to see how this page progresses. --Venkateswaran Ganesan (talk) 17:40, 1 January 2016 (UTC)