Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Ballad of Lucy Jordan


 * 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   Speedy Keep per WP:BEFORE, WP:SK#2 and WP:SNOW. Colonel Warden (talk) 06:27, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

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Non-notable song. Absolutely no sources found; tagged for sources since January 2007. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep A Google Books search contradicts the nominator's claim of a non-notable song. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 02:30, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep, speedy close. Once again, we have a completely uninformed nomination of a major song by a major songwriter, possibly the worst since the Dead Flowers AFD. WP:NSONGS says that "that have been independently released as a recording by several notable artists, bands or groups are probably notable"; when that holds, as here, it's a waste of other editors' time to advance a nomination without any rational explanation of a claim of non-notability, especially when there's no effort made to determine if sources are available. There's more than enough coverage of the song in the reviews and related coverage of the the 1970s Marianne Faithfull album alone, print coverage that can't be readily ound online. The Google Books search results are just the tip of an iceberg. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 04:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, all I hear is "Blah blah blah I'm gonna gripe at Hammer again because I hate him bawwwwwwwwww." If this song's so freaking notable, then why the hell was nobody arsed to find any sources for over three years, leaving this absolutely pitiful nanostub that barely even tries to be an article? Funny how you lazy bums never spring into action unless something gets thrown at AFD. If nothing else, maybe I'm actually improving the wiki by AFDing things that turn out to be notable — otherwise, you'd never get off your lazy butts and do the grunt work, and we'd just have more unsourced nanostubs clogging everything up. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 06:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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