Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Yes 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 merge to Yes (band). There was a clear consensus that the information should be kept in some form. However, the straight Keep !voters did not produce any convincing argument as to why this is better as a standalone rather than merged. Indeed, a merged article looks rather helpful in summarising graphically the complex changes in personnel described in prose. Whether the table should be reformatted, as proposed by sgeureka, is for post-AfD talk page discussion. TerriersFan (talk) 01:45, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Yes band members
Redundant to the Yes (band) article. The article explains all the band's lineup changes, and I don't see why it's necessary to have a standalone article for this. h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 05:36, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Yes is clearly a notable group, and there have been enough changes that this chronology makes a lot of sense and is clearly helpful.Balloonman (talk) 06:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * As a stand-alone article? I'm just nominating this because of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana lists below - these bands are easily as notable, and they're being nominated for deletion.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 07:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

*Keep: I agree with your other nominations, as the extra article provides no extra context. In this case however, there is a enormous history of change. Putting all of this in the band article would bloat it, yet the information is relevant to the article, so i think an extra article is appropriate. ~ | twsx | talkcont | 08:45, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: Woops, i was accidently on the band page, thinking i was actually on the list this AFD is about. Information doesn't seem as valuable now, so delete. ~ | twsx | talkcont | 08:48, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and maybe merge. What the Yes (band) article lacks is some sort of table or graphic showing all the line-up changes (of which there are many, many more than compared to Nirvana/Foo Fighters). That's what we've got here, so I don't see this article as being redundant. That said, it might be better to include such a table (or, indeed, a better designed one) in the main article. However, the way to achieve that would be to propose a merger; I really don't see AfDs as a good way of handling situations where merging might be appropriate. Bondegezou (talk) 10:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Replace information with a time table like Oasis (band) has and merge/delete back to Yes (band). This information is not notable enough for a separate article. – sgeureka t•c 11:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and Merge back to Yes (band) per above. This information is useful for the band's page but doesn't warrant it's own article. A1octopus (talk) 13:15, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep: Unlike Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, there have been alot of line up changes in fact, in the bands entire history they have only had one constant member Doc Strange (talk) 16:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per above, although I think it could be merged back into the Yes article without detracting from that article. Mandsford (talk) 18:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * As a matter of comparison, I wouldn't nominate Members of The Fall for deletion, as the number of lineup changes there makes Yes's lineup changes look small in comparison. I still think this is redundant though.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 19:01, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Reformat and merge per sgeureka's suggetion. Although I think they could do a better job with the graphics, and I'd like to see each member as a separate line, rather than each instrument. If nobody creates this graphic, my vote is to keep unmerged as the information is important, but way too large for the main article. Torc2 (talk) 21:47, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into Yes (band). While the information is useful, it isn't worthy of its own page. • 97198  talk  12:02, 25 November 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.