Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manic Street Preachers B-sides


 * 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   keep. Non-admin closure by Skomorokh  01:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Manic Street Preachers B-sides

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

Non-notable B-sides. All information is forked from respective singles. Fancruft. Please see the AfDs for Garbage B-sides and List of Coldplay's b-sides. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 17:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.   -- Tenacious D Fan (talk) 17:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Keep - Wikipedia used to be good for its long tail. Francium12 (talk) 20:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Meaning? Tenacious D Fan (talk) 20:48, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The Long Tail - Basically this is the sort of useful article which print encyclopedias would never cover which an online encyclopedia could because of its unlimited space. Its what I liked about Wikipedia before deletionism took over. This page is in my watchlist because wanted a list of the band b-sides. If this page is deleted this resource will no longer be avalaible to the rest of wikipedia. Wuoldn't you find it annoying if you went looking for a page only to discover someone was trying to delete it! Francium12 (talk) 00:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't/shouldn't the b-side be covered in the "album" article. And just because I'm a bit out of it, what exactly is a b-side in this age of CD singles anyway? Jasynnash2 (talk) 08:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's an informal term coming from the days of the 7 inch vinyl singles. You make a good point. A purist would say that referring to a B-side when discussing CD singles is incorrect, and not encyclopedic. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 09:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Heck, even calling them CD singles is in correct in most cases as they tend to have 2,3, or 4 tracks on them most of the time from what I've seen. Jasynnash2 (talk) 09:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 09:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep is a useful and discriminate list. All lists are "forks" of the content, that is why they are useful.Yobmod (talk) 13:22, 25 July 2008 (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.