Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Let Down

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete -- Francs2000 | Talk 11:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Let Down

Non-notable Radiohead song from OK Computer. Also contain copyrighted lyrics. Madchester 05:39, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Changed vote after the re-write. Very informative one, at that! Thanks! Hamster Sandwich 05:44, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete copyvio. Keep Tothebarricades rewrite. OK Computer is generally reagrded by critical polls as one of the best albums of the 1990's and this was considered as a single. Capitalistroadster 07:30, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, although a non-notable song from OK Computer is certainly a contradiction in terms, this is a poor article jamesgibbon 10:38, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and/or redirect to lactation. Wile E. Heresiarch 18:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - I expanded the article to the best of my ability and removed copyright violations. It's definitely notable, as OK Computer is one of the most well-known albums of the last decade. --Tothebarricades 20:32, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. While OK Computer is undoubtedly a critical sucess of the past decade, should all the tracks merit an article? Like "Exit Music (For a Film)" wasn't a single, but it was composed for the popular Romeo+Juliet film and soundtrack, and has been covered by other artists. I just don't see "Let Down" meriting any notability on its own, besides association on OK Computer. --Madchester 01:22, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
  • Well, we have articles on all sorts of Beatles songs, for instance. I wouldn't object to merging this into the OK Computer article but I think any song off a major album by a major band is notable if we have some information on it. --Tothebarricades 19:49, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep There is no real reason to get rid of it; it just needs to be edited.
• Radiohead is my favorite band, and this is my favorite song off of the album, but I'm gonna have to say Merge into OK Computer. Let Down was not released as a single and received no mainstream radio play (in my area, at least). I wouldn't call it a non-notable song, but it doesn't have the same sort of significance or popularity that most other songs with their own articles have. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 01:17, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Just needs improvement --Cruci 01:35, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Lactation. A song with at best only marginal notability. JamesBurns 02:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

• Observation.

• Google search: "let down" AND "lactation" -> about 15,500 results
• Google search: "let down" AND "radiohead" -> about 42,400 results
  • So at least "let down" is more notable as a radiohead song than as a whatever it has to do with lactation. --Tothebarricades 08:41, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

The term "let down" has been historically around a lot longer than radiohead. JamesBurns 06:36, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Wikipedia is not paper, and that's good. And I don't even like Radiohead at all. Punkmorten 23:08, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

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