Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik Mongrain/medias


 * 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    Subst on article page and delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 23:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Erik Mongrain/medias
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Wikipedia is not Wikimedia Commons. The article itself says that "This page has been created in order to increase the Public Domain Video and sample performances on Erik Mongrain article. Please do not remove", and this is clearly the role of Commons. J Milburn (talk) 12:22, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - this page is transcluded onto the main Erik Mongrain article. All the media is already stored on Commons. I would suggest we simply subst this page onto the main article as there's no particular reason it needs to be a subpage, and then delete this. The issue of excessive media use on the article can be discussed on the talk page. ~ mazca  t 13:06, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is no need to upload Ogg files or MP3s to Commons when the musician is hosting the same files (at least the MP3s) on his own web site. In addition to each article about a musician (say 50 Kbytes) we will now expect to have several megabytes of audio files on our servers, when the same material is generally available for free on external sites? Whatever the ultimate decision on keeping the music files, this particular sub-page 'medias.' should not exist, per mazca. EdJohnston (talk) 18:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Not suitable for the encyclopedia. But can be included as an external link to the artist's page. ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:05, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic. Mayalld (talk) 19:46, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete Namespace subpages are supposed to be disabled on English Wikipedia - see WP:Subpages - delete as Housekeeping. So tagged. ukexpat (talk) 20:45, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Subpages are supposed to be disabled and even if they were available, they're not supposed to be used for blatant duplication of commons material. (I personally think keeping the sound files is a good idea, assuming the copyright checks out. Websites change and I have had several instances of info disappearing on me. Keeping them locally would stop the material from disappearing if the official site ever decided to do a cleanup) - Mgm|(talk) 22:28, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a commons where they can be kept? ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:17, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: I think they are already on Commons, which makes this page even more redundant. – ukexpat (talk) 01:49, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTREPOSITORY. Deor (talk) 23:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.