Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anaconda (The Sisters of Mercy song)


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The result was redirect to Sisters of Mercy. (non-admin closure)  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 13:50, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Anaconda (The Sisters of Mercy song)

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Fails NSong - UK Indie chart is not considered significant chart. No discussion in reliable sources as far as I can see, so fails GNG as well. Propose a redirect to band or to discography. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ  21:41, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge with Sisters of Mercy - does not really require a stand-alone article. Vorbee (talk) 10:23, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep UK Indie Chart was more significant in the 1980s than now. "The single reached No. 3 on the UK Indie Chart and was named Single of the Week by several UK music magazines" 12:23, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge with Sisters of Mercy: As may be, but if the UK Indie Chart isn't explicitly part of WP:NMUSIC, this isn't the place to advocate that it should be. That being said, happily, my library has that book, and the author doesn't actually cite which "UK music magazines" claim to have made it "Single of the Week," which for a single that never hit the upper reaches of the main UK music charts I really want to see more proof to back up that claim. In any event, I can't find the track on the 1983 UK Indie Chart, although that might be a fault of the website.  Nha Trang  Allons! 17:07, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 20 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment:, – for information, in 1983 the indie chart was not published by Gallup, who were responsible for compiling the official singles chart at the time, but by their competitors MRIB. Hence this chart position will never appear on the OCC's website unless they gain the right to licence the indie charts between 1980 and 1985, when Gallup did take over the indie chart's compilation. Given how popular the Sisters of Mercy were with the music mags and indie kids in the early 80s, I think it is very likely that this record WAS made Single of the Week in various magazines... but I'd need a week or two to go to the British Library and check out the back issues of NME and Melody Maker to find out (the issues of Sounds and Record Mirror are missing between 1980 and 1984, unfortunately). Richard3120 (talk) 17:33, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Reply: As may be, but we can't keep an article (or indeed include information in one) based on speculation. The answer to that we don't know for a fact whether or not the subject was covered in notable magazines is not that we keep the article anyway; it's that we don't.  Nha Trang  Allons! 13:52, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * My point was that in a week or so I might be able to confirm or deny whether the article was made SOTW, so it wouldn't be speculation any more. Richard3120 (talk) 15:35, 23 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect to the artist or album. Fails notability guidelines. STATic message me!   00:25, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to a better place since subject plainly fails WP:NSONG. -The Gnome (talk) 10:57, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Sisters of Mercy. I ran a proquest news archive search on anaconda  + "sisters of mercy".  It brought up a mention of this song in the context of the gtoup, like this form the Village Voice in 1906: "Last time I saw Sisters of Mercy was nearly 15 years ago...  March 6 at Webster Hall was unbelievably awful, a sort of "name that tune" beneath heavy distortion and smoke machines ("Holy shit! Did they just play 'Anaconda'?"),...", a couple of false lededs, and what seems to be a n echo of a press release in a Mexican newspaper.  Nothing to support a stand alone article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:28, 24 July 2018 (UTC)


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