Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Beatles' recording sessions


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The result was   keep. Black Kite (talk) 22:38, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

The Beatles' recording sessions

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I may be a huge Beatles fan, but this is pretty crufty. Most of this content is not notable and that which is has already been or could very easily just be merged into individual pages. The page basically exists as a synthesis of various books detailing the sessions, although most of it still has yet to be sourced three years after the last AfD. Jprg1966  (talk)  07:05, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep The Beatles are possibly and argueably the most influential pop/rock band and collection of musicians of all-time. So WP:NOTTEMPORARY is an immediate answer.  Next, WP:SIGCOV demonstrates the world recognizes the contributions and notoriety of the events. Also, a review of the recording sessions falls under criteria for WP:MUSICBIO as a discussion of the recording sessions is also an historical review of the band, musicians, and compositions themselves. The recording sessions as an inclusion in encyclopedic format are relevant. Ren99 (talk) 07:27, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per Ren99. yeepsi (Time for a chat?) 09:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Sources exist. The nominator seems to be proposing this be deleted as WP:FANCRUFT but it hardly qualifies as an "obscure branch of popular culture": it has received coverage in multiple independent books and the Beatles are an enormously important band. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Most bands' recording logs are interesting to fans, but not necessary notable, but there is certainly enough interest in The Beatles' output to overcome this bar. (As an exercise for the reader, google for "strawberry fields alternate take" to get an idea of this). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties is the most obvious reliable source out there, which takes its dates directly from Abbey Road's session log sheets, and The Beatles Anthology would not have been commercially successful were it not for the interest in out-takes and alternative takes from recording sessions. The article is certainly too long and needs cleanup, but not outright deletion. -- Ritchie333  (talk)  10:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have no doubt that there is interest in the recording sessions of A Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever, but is there really encyclopedic value in listing the takes for Long, Long, Long? The most notable tidbits, like the fact that "1-2-3-Fah!" was added from a different take of I Saw Her Standing There, is already in the song's own article. -- Jprg1966  (talk)  13:34, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I meant when I said "The article is certainly too long and needs cleanup, but not outright deletion". Sounds like you agree with that. -- Ritchie333  (talk)  16:43, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess that makes some sense, but what I had meant was that the important info on SFF and A Day in the Life ought to be in those articles anyway, and everything else tossed — thus not necessitating a separate article. But I guess your idea will probably wind up being close to the consensus. -- Jprg1966  (talk)  00:35, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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