Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women & Songs


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The result was Merge albums into the parent article Women & Songs‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 02:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Women & Songs

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Set of almost completely unreferenced articles about a compilation album series. To be fair, they were largely created at a time when Wikipedia's approach to the notability of albums tended toward completionist directoryism -- as long as a compilation album had notable artists on it and was verifiable as existing, it was considered "inherently" notable regardless of sourcing issues. But that's long since been kiboshed, and now compilation albums are notable only if they can be shown to pass WP:GNG on their sourceability. These, however, are all virtually unsourced: I just now added one reference to the series overview article to get it out of the "unreferenced since 2009" bucket, while each of the individual albums is "referenced" solely to an AllMusic directory entry -- but to the extent that AllMusic helps to support notability, it doesn't hinge on the album having an AllMusic entry per se, it hinges on whether that entry contains a written review of the album by one of AllMusic's professional music critics, which absolutely none of them do. And even on a ProQuest search for at-the-time coverage, I found a couple of short CD reviews for one or two of the earliest albums, but mostly I just found glancing namechecks of their existence in coverage of individual artists who had placed songs on one of them, which doesn't help. So I just haven't been able to find anything like enough coverage to salvage all of these -- and even if somebody else can find more coverage than I did somewhere else, it would still be far from clear that we would need 18 separate articles here instead of just one omnibus article about the series as a whole. Bearcat (talk) 01:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
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 * Merge all to the one overarching series article. There's possibly enough to support an article on the series, but not the individual compilations. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge: to a "Woman and Songs" article about the collection (which does not yet exist). A bit of coverage overall and a book listing . Gbooks above has several scans of Billboard magazine over the years that talk about these albums. Oaktree b (talk) 02:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  02:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge all - That "article about the collection" as hypothesized by the last voter already exists at Women & Songs, which is the first item at the top of the nominator's list. Various albums in the series got reviews that may or may not describe the series as a whole, and those can be used for content to beef up that series article. Redirect all of the individual albums to there. (Off-topic: Whoever designed those album covers should be fired.) ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 02:57, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


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