Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep or "nomination withdrawn", take your pick. Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please

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Delete. No source. Tagged for more than four years. if WP:Verifiability is to have any true meaning, articles like this one must be sourced. if not, they must be removed. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Comment To my knowledge, a Web search for one song is not a WP:Reliable Source. If anybody with a greater knowledge of pop music than I could find a source for even a few of the statements in the article, then I agree that it could be salvaged. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC) Comment. It is really annoying to be accused of "an incorrect use of the process" and to be told to read a page with which one is thoroughly familiar. A request for a citation was posted with the original author at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jpete#Academy_Award_Performance:_And_the_Envelope.2C_Please. One should strive for politenesss, even if one is having a bad day. And one should keep comments on the subject at hand. (Sorry for the discursion, although my spellchecker tells me there is no such word.) Sincerely, your friend in Wikidom, GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:32, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep artists album which featured multiple charting and award winning songs. here's plenty of references on ONE song off of the album. adding sources is not too much more involved than opening an AfD. - Theornamentalist (talk) 17:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - What this article needs is citations, not deletion. One must remember that something from 1975 is unlikely to have a lot of modern online coverage, but as Theornamentalist said above, finding stuff doesn't take that much longer than starting an AFD. If this nomination was to force action on finding sources, that is an incorrect use of the process. See #9 of WP:BEFORE. Meanwhile, hopefully someone with enough time will improve the article. -- D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 14:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well sorry if you were offended... in all-text communication like this we lose pesky little things like tone of voice and body language. But I don't see how my comments were not about the topic at hand. You nominated an article for deletion, for a reason with which I disagree, and I backed up my disagreement with a long-standing policy that is definitely relevant to the discussion. But I do have a question: if you are concerned about how nobody has added sources to the article for however many years, why not do it yourself? -- D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 16:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added some references (off-line, dead trees style) from the search performed by Theornamentalist. -- D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 14:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy Keep, thanks to Doomsdayer520 for finding some sources. GeorgeLouis (talk) 18:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I couldn't have done it without Theornamentalist as well. -- D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 20:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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