Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Campfire Song


 * 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 and redirect to The Camping Episode. Spartaz Humbug! 05:52, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

The Campfire Song

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Non-notable song from a TV series. The page was deleted via PROD long ago ("nn, Unencylopaedic song from a children's cartoon only sung once through the entire series" nominated by a long-gone editor). It was recently recreated. It was promptly PRODed (" Non-notable song, per WP:GNG. This is fancruft." by User:Animalparty) and endorsed twice ("Also fails WP:NSONG criteria" by User:RA0808 and "A search turned up several lyrics sites and suchlike, but no WP:RS coverage." by User:Narky Blert). This second PROD was rightly declined per process, so here we are at AFD. DMacks (talk) 17:28, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note, I named the recent nominators so they would be pinged as being involved in this situation; first article creator is long gone; I alerted the new-version creator to this discussion via that editor's talkpage). DMacks (talk) 17:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per my PROD rationale, quoted by OP. Narky Blert (talk) 17:32, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Changing my vote to redirect and protect in the light of subsequent arguments. Narky Blert (talk) 19:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 17:57, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 17:57, 26 February 2018 (UTC)


 * 'Move' to The Camping Episode. I don't know much about SpongeBob, but within the community this song is one of the better known moments. Perhaps the episode deserves its own page? Alexschmidt711 (talk) 19:45, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Camping Episode. Above, Alexschmidt711 raised a good question about SpongeBob fans. This song has a certain reputation in that fan community as a favorite and it's been a meme topic. So people are likely to search for it in WP. If they do, they can be redirected to the episode instead of seeing a recommendation to create an article. On its own, the song is WP:FANCRUFT all the way. Admins could consider the WP:SALT strategy too, but I do not know how that works in relation to redirects. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 20:23, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Protection freezes the contents (or lack thereof) of the article-title. Salting is the special name for doing that when no such article exists, which therefore prevents its creation (including "creation as a redirect"). Alternately, the redirect could be created and then protected, which would prevent it from being converted into an actual article. DMacks (talk) 20:32, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information. My vote will remain "Redirect" and if that turns out to be the ultimate result of this AfD, I would suggest some sort of protection to prevent reversal of the redirect, though I will leave it to you guys to select the best technique. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 20:50, 26 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect to The Camping Episode. As initiator of the original PROD (or second?), I determined it didn't meet WP:GNG. But a redirect is preferable to deletion. I don't think there is anything worth saving in this article: leave that cruft at Encyclopedia SpongeBobia (where I now realize it was copied from). --Animalparty! (talk) 00:11, 27 February 2018 (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.