Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miles Away (Madonna song)


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The result was   Keep (non-admin closure) -- M P er el  00:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Miles Away (Madonna song)

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Like "Beat Goes On (Madonna song)" (also nominated for deletion), this is a Madonna album track which received one week of chart action due to digital download sales on the week Hard Candy was released. There are no plans nor confirmations pertaining to a release as a single nor any sources about a music video, etc. Song has no notability on its own at the present time. Suggest delete or merge to album page per WP:CRYSTAL and/or WP:CRUFT. - eo (talk) 11:36, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep: "Official" release as a single or not, this is a song documented as charting on a national hits chart, and so clears WP:MUSIC, if barely.   RGTraynor  13:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * guidelines (WP:MUSIC) for individual songs says "A separate article is only appropriate when there is enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article". Plus, a download chart is not necessarily a national hit chart of it includes songs not offically released. 23:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * "Songs that have been ranked on national or significant music charts ... are probably notable." I'd say that a national download chart is at least just as significant as the "official" charts, traditionally compiled from a number of nebulous polling sources purporting to gauge airplay.  By contrast, I see nothing in WP:MUSIC stating that a song must be "officially" released as a single as a precondition of notability; for one thing; what, does that disbar songs prior to the vinyl era?    RGTraynor  05:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep meets WP:MUSIC.   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 14:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:MUSIC refers to artists not individual songs, so not relevant to this article. JKW111 (talk) 23:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Strong delete: Not a single (as far as we know so far). Entry in a download chart (not limited to actual singles) does not meet notability test. If needed, its download performance can be included on album page, but certainty not enough for a separate article. JKW111 (talk) 06:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC) Keep: Well, like other articles when it charts, people usually make a blue article like this. It is also not stating it is a single. I think when a single charts it should be made an article. --BatterWow (talk) 01:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Given that it's Madonna, it's likely to chart much higher, and will more than likely be past stub-class in a few weeks. Seems to barely meet WP:MUSIC right now. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 17:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:31, 22 May 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.