Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandatory Suicide


 * 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 of the debate was delete. (As a sidenote, quite a few songs do have their own entries. Feel free to nominate Baby's in Black for deletion.)

Mandatory Suicide
Songs do not usually get their own entries. Merge into the album it's on if applicable. Stifle 13:57, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Agreed, fair comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by user:128.243.220.21 (talk • contribs)
 * Delete or redirect to the LP's article. PJM 14:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Which would be South of Heaven. Punkmorten 17:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, songs do get their own articles quite often ... if they become notable. This one is rather too obscure a recording to justify its own article, so delete. 23skidoo 22:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - individual songs don't usually get 36,300 google hits unless they are very notable. The song lyrics and topic have apparently influenced a lot of other places, and so its chart notoriety is not the only deciding factor.  Apparently it is used in discussions of satanism and other areas.  Not to mention that a band was formed by the same name in honour of the song - usually a good hint that its important.  Also rename article to Mandatory Suicide (song) to avoid confusion with the term that has been in somewhat widespread use as a result of the song, and also to avoid confusion with the almost-notable-enough-for-wikipedia band by the same name.  And disambig "mandatory suicide" as well. Zordrac  (talk) Wishy Washy  Darwikinian Eventualist 23:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, songs are rarely notable enough for their own article. Also, only 808 of the search results are unique. -- Kjkolb 01:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nom; info covered at main album article.  Also, a Dutch band took the name, so the number of google hits is actually 25,000, which I grant is a lot.  As to the above point, the 808 unique hits (I get [831] is from the Google sample of 1000. Extrapolating,that would mean roughly 20,000 unique hits which is pretty large. Eusebeus 07:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I disagree with the nominator's assumption that songs are "generally" not listed.  There are guidelines for song notability at WikiProject Music/Notability and Music Guidelines/Songs.  However, if the article does not prove its own notability, then I will assume it does not meet these guidelines.  --DDG 20:01, 8 December 2005 (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.