Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Far from the Maddening Crowds


 * 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. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 00:01, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Far from the Maddening Crowds

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fails notability, very little content, resembles something that should be on a fansite Alan  -  talk  04:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 04:13, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Reviewed by Allmusic, the Montreal Mirror, and several sites devoted to That Sort of Thing, would appear to meet the music notability guideline.  Suggest that some mention of the Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd be taken in the page; many who type this will be looking for that. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:06, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep This article is for the debut album of Chicane, a notable artist who - aside from having a #1 single in the UK in 2000 has achieved several charting singles on the UK Top 75, including two singles - "Offshore" (#14) and "Sunstroke" (#21) - from this very album. I think that sufficiently passes WP:MUSIC. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 18:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly notable. See, . It was a top 50 album in the UK.--Michig (talk) 20:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow Keep. per above (and below).--Epeefleche (talk) 22:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * just because the artist is notable doesn't make his albums or songs as notable. Just abnout every article created for his songs and albums have little no no context in them, and the only claim of notablility is that 'they charted'. They can all be merged into one article, which may possibly make a notable article (or just merge into main article). Alan  -  talk  22:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Then improve them using the sources that are available.--Michig (talk) 07:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The WP albums convention is that if the artist is notable, his albums generally are deemed notable.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:40, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. I think the nominator is being too harsh with the definition of "non-notability" in proposing this artist's songs and albums for deletion. I would argue that these articles do need better sources and text. So the better option would be to add tags for Stub, Expand, Wikify, etc. Just because the articles need improvement does not automatically mean that they are non-notable. Doomsdayer520 (talk) 09:49, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow keep. Satisfies WP:NALBUMS as an officially released album by a notable artist, that would not be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article.  Gongshow  Talk 07:57, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that the general approach of the WPAlbums group is to keep as separate articles album pages of notable artists.--Epeefleche (talk) 16:18, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, I'm with you. I only bring it up at all because WP:NALBUMS states that "officially released albums may (emphasis mine) have sufficient notability to have individual articles", which appears to allow for this possibility: "album articles with little more than a track listing may be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article." I wanted to address that such a move would not be appropriate, just in case someone wanted to go there. And like you said, merging albums of notable artists is not the norm in practice anyway.  Gongshow  Talk 17:19, 18 November 2009 (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.