Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music used by Apple Inc.


 * 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   delete. postdlf (talk) 20:15, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

List of music used by Apple Inc.

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I suspect this fails WP:SAL due to a lack of reliable sources discussing the topic as a group. Most of the current referencing currently consists of primary sources that demonstrate that yes, such and such a song was used in an Apple ad. As part of WP:BEFORE, I located two probably reliable articles that constitute the right sort of reference, and added them as a new Further reading section. But Mashable is a pretty light source, and the Rolling Stone article was more about the artists than the songs or Apple's advertising. There are also blog sources out there, like this. Perhaps there are more reliable sources out there, but with a topic as intensely studied as Apple, the fact that I'm not finding more is a red flag for me.

Even if the article is kept, it could certainly use some trimming. Do we really need to know every song Apple played at its developers conferences? --BDD (talk) 18:26, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 18:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 18:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 18:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

This is the only known source for all apple songs, please do not delete! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.191.66 (talk) 04:18, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Due to our policy against original research, that's actually a reason to delete, not keep. --BDD (talk) 19:06, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I think we should keep the page, it's very informative (in my opinion). Lack of sources is correct and a lot of them should be added. If it's going to be deleted, please save the article anywhere else! --TheMostAmazingTechnik (talk) 18:17, 3 February 2014 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Northamerica1000(talk) 05:03, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Delete or possibly transfer some information to Apple Inc. advertising. This list is insanely over-detailed. There's nothing wrong with discussing Apple's advertising and their use of music in advertising, since they're a major and innovative advertiser making considerable use of music. But this list goes well beyond describing their advertising to listing every song they played at any event. --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:38, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | gab _ 04:58, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * This list tries to be a complete list of all music Apple has ever used. So trimming is not really something you can do. Why don't we try to send the (ridiculously detailed) list over to some other site, possibly to http://apple.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Screen? Afterwards we can get rid of these thing and redirect users to Apple Inc. advertising. 89.182.113.206 (talk) 22:44, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * KEEP did you guys waste a second to think about the hard and long work done in this? I bet this took abround 2 hrs. It's informative and has a degree in nostalgia though the timeline is not too far in the past. So i vote for keep. I carefully imported this into Music Wiki because this one will probably deleted. --Saviour1981 (talk) 11:07, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That's probably good, because there's clearly interest in the piece, even if Wikipedia is not the proper place to host it. I'm sure some WP:HARDWORK has been done on this, but that's not relevant to whether or not the article should be deleted. --BDD (talk) 20:27, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That's what i'm sayin' - if WP's the wrong place, Wikia has an english spoken music page where it can be added to. i already did. Nevertheless, i hate it when hard work got despised... Cheers, goodie ^^ --Saviour1981 (talk) 23:39, 23 February 2014 (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.