Talk:Seemann (Lolita song)

Proposed merge with Sailor (song)
Per WP:NSONGS which states "Songs with notable cover versions are normally covered in one common article about the song and the cover versions" Richhoncho (talk) 03:56, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I regret not having more overtly stated the rationale behind my splitting of the original article: my motivation was that said article was of such length as to have readability issues, and there seemed to be an obvious border between the two highest profile recordings of the song: those by Lolita and Petula Clark, all other versions of the song being attached more to one or to the other.

I understand the WP benchmark stated above but I feel it addresses cases where a cover of a song has been afforded a separate article either arbitrarily or due to fancruft for the cover's singer. The WP is not absolute as it states "normally" and I would opine that the circumstances in this instance justify the split as made.

I believe the length of the original article was between 36 and 37 kilobytes which is approaching the 40 kilobyte minimum for splitting on size alone, and there was potential for article growth: background details on the cited versions might be added, and also the song is still at least occasionally being remade. I was concerned that as the article existed it might be pared down with a number of cited versions dismissed as un-notable: I frequently consult Wikipedia articles about songs and always hope to be presented with as much info as possible, and while I understand the omission of less notable info to keep an article readable I do feel that if the alternate step of splitting the article along obvious lines can be taken then that is the preferable step.

And I hope I'm not sounding a death knell here but the reason why I thought of splitting the article without initiating prior discussion is because I some time ago chanced on the article Si demain... (Turn Around) an article on a French re-writing of the song Total Eclipse of the Heart which has existed without evident challenge since 2007.--Cherrylimerickey (talk) 01:00, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

There being no further input pro or con the proposed merger as the six week mark approaches I am presuming to remove the tag as the reasons I gave for splitting the original article have not been to any degree refuted. --Cherrylimerickey (talk) 21:23, 17 February 2016 (UTC)