Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Various artists


 * 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   Soft redirect to various artists. Stifle (talk) 08:40, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Various artists

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Dicdef, no hope of expansion. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 15:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Just because we've all heard of a term many times doesn't mean it needs an encyclopedia article. Oftentimes it's just a term... and thus suited for a dictionary. --Rividian (talk) 15:30, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable topic, as there is no "significant" coverage. Not even a definition, as this is a phrase like "assorted nuts" which is readily understood from its constituent words. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to compilation album, which uses the "Various Artists" term liberally. (Unless anyone's aware of other artistic fields where this term is used - I'm not aware of any but not sure.) Townlake (talk) 16:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well apparently there is a notable electronica act called "Various Artists", but there is no Wikipedia article yet. I'm not aware of any individual songs credited to "Various Artists" (usually they come up with a name, see We Are the World). So your proposal for a redirect seems okay. We can create a dab page for the electronica group if needed, but for now I see no use (for which we have an article) except Compilation album. --Rividian (talk) 16:25, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Simply deleting this page would be disruptive. It has more than 500 incoming links (mostly from album infoboxes) that would suddenly turn red. And many of those (especially soundtracks) cannot accurately be redirected to compilation album. Hqb (talk) 19:25, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Can a soft redirect to Wiktionary be done then? Would that make sense?Umbralcorax (talk) 19:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Those red links could easily be removed with the unlink tab. Also, I think a soft direct would not be out of the question. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 19:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Soft Redirect - Agreed... it should be a soft redirect to Wiktionary. --Pmedema (talk) 23:41, 7 September 2008 (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.