Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hockey Scores


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The result was merge to Hockey Night in Canada. Liz Read! Talk! 18:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Hockey Scores

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Article about a song, not making any strong claim to passing WP:NSONGS. The notability claim here is that it was entered in a music competition in 2008 -- it very briefly went viral for how appallingly bad it was, and got a brief three-day blip of media coverage because of that, but didn't win (or even advance in) the competition and has had no enduring impact since. The sourcing available, further, isn't sufficient to claim that this would pass WP:GNG instead of having to pass musical notability criteria: there's one deadlinked National Post footnote that I've been completely unable to recover from either Wayback or ProQuest, one deadlinked Globe and Mail footnote that was recoverable but turned out to be a short blurb rather than substantive analysis, a blog that isn't support for notability and a primary source that doesn't mention this song and serves only to verify the fact that it didn't make the finals of the competition. And even on a ProQuest search for further coverage, the only other thing I can find is a piece of "local guy does stuff" in the community hyperlocal of the songwriter's hometown inside the same three-day period as the other sources, which still isn't enough. So, effectively, this is just the musical equivalent of a BLP1E, and nothing here would pass the ten year test for enduring significance. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Albums and songs and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge with either Hockey Night in Canada or the Hockey Song, I find coverage from July and August 2008 using .ca websites, but nothing since then. Interesting tidbit perhaps, nothing for GNG to have an article about. Oaktree b (talk) 16:01, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * @Oaktree b I'm assuming by "the Hockey Song" you're referring to "The Hockey Theme", yes? Either way, I think Hockey Night in Canada would be the more appropriate spot, though I haven't looked into the nomination so this isn't strictly a vote per se. QuietHere (talk) 05:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Oops, yes, the Hockey Theme. Oaktree b (talk) 14:28, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge per Oaktree. Not sure if there's enough to carry a whole article on its own, but there is some RS coverage/commentary of note here. Sergecross73   msg me  16:17, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge to Hockey Night in Canada. Fails WP:NSONG per nom. SBKSPP (talk) 05:47, 17 December 2022 (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.