Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What If (Simple Plan song)


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The result was redirect to Simple Plan (album). The parenthetical qualification makes it pretty unlikely somebody would stumble onto this by accident, so I'm going to respectfully disagree with Michig.  A  Train ''talk 17:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

What If (Simple Plan song)

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No evidence of wp:Notability. None of the sources significantly covers the song.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  07:49, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. North America1000 08:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. North America1000 08:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Redirect to album - David Gerard (talk) 10:31, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to album. A song does not qualify for an article just because you can add one brief soundbite from the bandleader about what or who inspired it — the notability of a song is conferred by whether it meets certain specific markers of achievement, such as charting on an IFPI-certified national pop chart, and (even more importantly) the depth of the reliable sourcing that can be added to support that. But apart from the interview in which he gave the Heroes quote (and even that's in a blog, not a real music magazine that counts as a reliable source for NMUSIC claims), this is otherwise sourced to a band fansite, a user-generated directory to which anybody can add random and not-necessarily-sourced WP:TRIVIA about any song that exists, and a user-generated directory of song lyrics to which again anybody can add the lyrics of any song. And that's not the kind of sourcing it takes to make a song Wikipedia-notable. Bearcat (talk) 16:15, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, and we shouldn't create redirects from titles that are unlikely to be entered in searches simply because someone previoulsy created an article with that title. --Michig (talk) 08:31, 11 October 2016 (UTC)


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