Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arrested in Shanghai

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 keep, invalid nomination. Feel free to merge it if you wish, but just do it, don't start a proposal — especially in an arena that is specifically not for merges.--SB | T 05:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arrested in Shanghai

propose to merge to Rancid's album Indestructible. Fancruft per WP:NOT indiscriminate collection of information. Each band has songs which are special to it, but that alone is not reason to have an article on each one. This is not a hit song/single, and does not meet notability criteria in the WP:SONG guideline. Ohconfucius 09:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Merge content into band/album article per nom and delete this one without redirecting (we can't have redirects for every song ever written). --Thorsten1 09:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• No, we only have redirects for the ones we have info about. Please note that the edit history of merged content needs to be retained per the GFDL. Therefore, merge and delete is not a valid combination. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:05, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delisting. Proposed mergers do not belong on AFD. Please visit WP:PM instead. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment @Mgm: I'm not sure I get what you mean here. My idea was to take what meaningful information we have (i.e. basically, that this band has a song about Tiananmen Square) and put it in the article for the band, if anyone cares enough to do it. I really don't think that we need to preserve the edit history of this particular stub in order to be allowed to do so. As it stands, Arrested in Shanghai is not a valid article, and its subject does not qualify for any article per WP:SONG. Stating that some information from it might be used in another article in an AFD nomination doesn't make the nomination a proposed merger. --Thorsten1 11:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Your nomination starts with the words "propose to merge" so you might understand why I thought that was the idea. But yes, the history needs to be retained. See WP:MERGE. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

For the record, it wasn't "my" nomination, I merely supported it with a clearer vote to delete. As for the rest: If there is really no other way, I repeat my vote to delete this without salvaging any content, which was just an attempt at compromise, anyway.--Thorsten1 21:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment I would not oppose deletion per guidelines, or how this AfD is supposed to work. However, there appears to be useful content, and thought someone would want to transfer the content prior to deletion of the page. Or perhaps the content could be re-created. In any case, it doesn't warrant its own article. Ohconfucius 03:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• delete nonnotable song with trivial article content. Mukadderat 18:50, 10 September 2006 (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.