Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of E Street Band members


 * 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 redirect‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to E Street Band. Liz Read! Talk! 16:34, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

List of E Street Band members

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WP:NLIST. Highly repetitive list of band members already covered in E Street Band. The number of band members does not justify listing them outside that article. History section makes it look like a fork of the E Street Band Article. Kleuske (talk) 14:59, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music, Entertainment,  and United States of America. Kleuske (talk) 14:59, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment - there is a bit of precedent of having articles like this for long-running bands with lots of lineup changes. List of Nine Inch Nails members and List of the Smashing Pumpkins band members come to mind. Certainly some would be silly - like one for ZZ Top - but this seems like the sort of band it's appropriate for. Band membership is an essential thing to track, and lists make it so band articles aren't massive or bogged down on talking about comings and goings of members all the time. I also find it rather unlikely that a band of this caliber hasn't mustered up a few NLIST satisfying sources over the course of ...40 years? I'll look further but I'm probably leaning keep. Sergecross73   msg me  15:48, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * After looking further, my stance is a combination of what I said above, and what's pointed out below. A split like this is conceptually possible, but it was not properly executed. I support redirecting for now, (surprised no one BOLDly tried that first) but with no prejudice towards recreation if someone decides to do it right in the future. Sergecross73   msg me  11:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Speedy redirect Every word in the history section is at E Street Band, the timeline is duplicative, and the line-ups are duplicative. If you're going to WP:SPLIT the main article, you need to actually complete the job and remove the content from the main article and use appropriate sumamry style rather than just copy-paste and do nothing else. This was a bold split that skipped the first four steps, but I do not believe it's necessary in the first place and the table of members should instead be in the main article. The main article is not "bogged down" with this content at all. Reywas92Talk 17:21, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect Look, it's a potentially valid article split, but Reywas92 is correct - it's just duplicative at this point. SportingFlyer  T · C  20:11, 21 July 2023 (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.