Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I Lost on Jeopardy


 * 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: seems pretty clear that this is a keep, with agreement that the article needs cleanup. I elected to close it early -- Samir 22:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I Lost on Jeopardy

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It's a single about which there's little to be said; the article makes no claim to significance (it reached eighty-one on an unspecified U.S. chart for an unspecified period). The bulk of the article is made up of a list of trivia, little of which is of any interest to anyone but a hardcore Yankovic fan. Mel Etitis ( Talk ) 21:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:MUSIC "Has been the subject of a music video that played on a major music network". The video received substantial airplay when it was released, and continues to appear every now and then. DarkAudit 22:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete it's basically a trivia article masquerading as a song article: one great nugget one learns from the article is what "Secret ingredient found in both Cheese Whiz & Crazy Glue" (Potpourri for $20); what other encyclopedia would have that and its ilk? case closed. Carlossuarez46 22:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as a notable music video from Yankovic's debut year. The article could use some improvements to integrate information currently bundled under the poisonous "trivia" heading (from any given person's perspective, anything on Wikipedia is trivia), but this is no reason to delete the article rather than just, for example, culling its trivia section outright, if that is what's seen to be the problem.  This AfD comes after the article was improperly speedied and deleted by the nominating admin. Robert K S 23:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as a notable song, which charted, from a notable artist. No good arguments exist for deletion. The fact that the article needs clean-up is not a deletion criterion. Newyorkbrad 23:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article, while it contains a lot of trivia, is still about a notable song. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Useight (talk • contribs) 23:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
 * Keep meets WP:MUSIC. --W.marsh 00:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC).
 * Keep as previously mentioned per WP:MUSIC - the #81 rank, incidentally, was achieved on the Billboard Hot 100. --Scani 00:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - I've listened to the song, incidentally, and it is a notable song, from a notable artist, and it meets WP:MUSIC. Cleanup is not a reason for deletion.  Cool Blue  talk to me 00:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Meets all relevant guidelines. --badlydrawnjeff talk 01:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, as it does meet the current standards for music inclusion. There's gotta be some Weird Al fan out there willing to improve it...--Xnuala (talk) 02:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, The song is a well known Weird Al single, the video included not only Art Fleming and Don Pardo to cover the Jeopardy! aspect but also Greg Kihn who did the song Al's spoofing (Jeopardy). I can't think of an earlier spoof with so much "official" participation. Anynobody 05:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep satisfies WP:MUSIC criteria and all other relevant guidelines. After all, where else but Wikipedia would you go to discover the secret ingredient found in both Cheese Whiz & Crazy Glue? Alansohn 11:17, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, meets WP:MUSIC as stated over and over again, but slash and burn the trivia. RFerreira 06:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, satisfies guidelines. Ab e g92 contribs 18:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Satisfies WP:MUSIC. I am also very pleased to see that my views are quite similar to the views of a number of other Wikipedians in this discussion. Andy Saunders 00:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, You can talk dismissively about anyone, we've got articles on guys just because they happened to leave the atmosphere. The fact is that like leaving the atmosphere, charting on the hot 100 is a significant event in itself. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 02:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable. Everyking 16:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep - WP:SNOW, a song by a clearly notable artist -Halo 21:10, 17 May 2007 (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.