Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It's My Life (Talk Talk)

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 07:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] It's My Life (Talk Talk)

It is a duplicate of It's My Life. A Wikipedian did a cut and paste move from the original article to a new location. There is another controversy, too. Should "It's My Life" be about that album, or a disambiguation page between the album and a No Doubt song? The another Wikipedian wants it to be a disambiguation page, I think it should be for the album. Come on, No Doubt did just a cover version! And the original version isn't totally unknown. And the album article would have more text than about just a one track. -Hapsiainen 09:21, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

• This is totally surplus to requirements so Delete. For what it's worth, the article for It's My Life should refer to the album by Talk Talk while the song is sufficiently notable to warrant an article known as It's My Life (song) referring to both the Talk Talk and No Doubt versions. Capitalistroadster 09:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, I second the comments of Capitalistroadster. I'd also support an It's My Life disambiguous page that maps to It's My Life (album) and It's My Life (song) with references to both songs (and hell even the Bon Jovi song of the same name if anyone wanted to add it). The current title of this article is an odd usage and is not in line with the way most albums are listed.--Isotope23 20:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Yeah, what Isotope23 said. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• The 1965 classic "It's My Life" by The Animals is more notable than the 1984 album or song of the same name by Talk Talk or the cover by No Doubt. There's also a Monkees song by that name, so a disambig is probably warranted. Quale 07:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the info. I was looking for such, when I told about the problem here. So It's My Life should be a disambiguation page. Then there should be pages like "It's My Life (x album)". But the song pages are trickier to order. There can't be "It's My Life (song)", because there are several such songs. If the No Doubt version and the original song had the same article, what could be an appropriate, intuitive name for it? I don't know. Does it make sense to divide all the song articles by performer? -Hapsiainen 11:12, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If it's the same song, then I think that there should be one article, with details of different recordings. If it's just the same name name, then the usual approach is to name them Song Title (Jane Smith song), Song Title (The Musical Group song), etc. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:36, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete (and treat in line with Quale's comments). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete this duplicate article. I don't feel any urgency to disambig It's My Life until some new article requires it. This can be taken as a hint that I'm not clear that a No Doubt cover requires its own article. Jkelly 21:46, 7 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.