Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Starlight Express Original London


 * 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. Mackensen (talk) 01:15, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Starlight Express Original London

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There is no reason to have separate articles for each individual production of a musical. There article is basically a reiteration of Starlight Express. &mdash;  Music  Maker  5376  00:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: We have a bit of a silent dispute going on, with someone deleting from the main Starlight Express article all the information about productions that did not occur in the UK. I appreciate that having all the information from all the productions on one article is a lot to swallow, which is why I am working on breaking it down into production-specific pages. It would be rather against the spirit of an encyclopaedia to have information available and not used, simply because one person is anglocentric. Is there a reason that detail should not be gone into when it can be?  Mazz0626 00:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: User:Mazz0626 is mistaken. No one is deleting information about productions, all of it is simply repeated twicein the article.  As MusicMaker noted, musicals should not have separate articles for each new production of the musical.  Unfortunately, Starlight Express is full of repeated information, WP:LISTCRUFT and fancruft.  -- Ssilvers 00:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: It is not all the same information repeated. If I go through and remove all the repetitions, replacing entries with ones like 'in this produciotn, the song Lotta Locomotion was replaced by the new Whole Lotta Locomotion', would that be acceptable? I though the way I had done it was the least confusing.  Mazz0626 00:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Yes, that would be a more acceptable way of presenting the information. &mdash;   Music  Maker  5376  00:47, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Ok, right on it - but it's going to look comparatively confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazz0626 (talk • contribs) 00:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, I dont think that Starlight Express needs to be split. While it is a large article, duplication is a large reason for that.  I've looked around and not seen any musicals that have sub-articles.  MusicMaker, do you know of any?  John Vandenberg 03:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, To my knowledge, the only subpages for musicals involve extensive cast lists or articles about cast recordings. There had been an article for the Las Vegas version of The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), but it did not survive an afd.  (It may have been speedied; I'm having trouble finding the afd.)  &mdash;   Music  Maker  5376  15:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 03:26, 31 August 2007 (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.