Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smell the Glove (3rd nomination)


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The result was redirect to This Is Spinal Tap. Will also protect to prevent further unexpected restoration. RL0919 (talk) 17:50, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Smell the Glove
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Fictional album from the film This Is Spinal Tap (there have been a few actual Spinal Tap albums, but this is not one of them). The page is written from an in-universe perspective, with a fairly thorough breakdown on its appearance in the film itself and an infobox that fully buys into it— listing further fictional albums. The "other black sleeves" section is largely original research and speculation. There is a single reference here, which turns out to just be an image of a fake cover art, hosted on a Spinal Tap fansite, used within the fictional write-up; the two external links are also to fansites. The article has been listed as having issues for over five years and there have been no no significant changes made in that time. In short, this article falls afoul of WP:CRUFT, WP:UNIVERSE, WP:OR, and is just poorly maintained on top of that. — Kawnhr (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to This Is Spinal Tap. It's not implausible as a search term, but there's really nothing to say about it that the article on the movie couldn't. Nor does there appear to be anything really worth merging. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 22:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect To respective movie the fictional album is from. It’s better discussed (briefly) in the context of the movie article. Sergecross73   msg me  13:44, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above as not independently notable, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 14:58, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to This Is Spinal Tap, in complete agreement with the nominator's points on WP:CRUFT, WP:UNIVERSE, WP:OR. Also note how the article tries to fill space with irrelevant commentary on real albums that also have black covers. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 22:14, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect - up to 11, dude! I want to add in that an argument could be made that this is the MacGuffin of This is Spinal Tap. Bearian (talk) 20:35, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - If the ultimate consensus is to redirect, note that this has already been done at least twice but then reversed years later by someone who thought the fictional album was notable. Perhaps some protection will be in order to prevent more reversals in the future. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 21:45, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to This is Spinal Tap and agree with Doomsdayer520's about requesting protection if a redirect supported by consensus here is repeatedly reversed Dartslilly (talk) 03:25, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect per the above discussion. Aoba47 (talk) 19:42, 7 January 2020 (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.