Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cop Killer (album)

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cop Killer (album)

The album in question was always entitled "Body Count", even prior to the deletion of "Cop Killer." A glance at a 1992 Billboard magazine would easily settle the point, but I don't have one handy. Also, a search on ebay for the song "Cop Killer" yields only hits for the CD entitled Body Count This is easily verifiable and should not be a dispute except for an anonymous user who continues to revert the deletion proposal.St. Jimmy 04:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

that anonymous user would be me. i have no clue what user DJac75/St. Jimmy is talking about; (Personal attack removed). of course the album was first entitled Cop Killer but, like i wrote in the main Body Count article, Ice-T has decided to pull it and re-release it under the name Body Count. read his book, then come back and make deletion tags. --80.134.154.192 14:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: Every removal after the first was on good grounds. You are not supposed to re-prod pages after the prod tag has been removed, no matter who removes it, but go to AfD instead. See WP:PROD. Morgan Wick 04:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom (i.e. nom is entirely historically correct). Even if this were true, a more appropriate place to put the information would be in the article about the album as it later became as that's the one that's been around longer, surely. BigHaz 06:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete as nom is entirely correct. Sorry 80.134.154.192, but I bought the album the day it came out and my version (with Cop Killer on it) is called Body Count... There was no discernable difference between the original version of the Body Count album with Cop Killer and the version without beyond the obvious change in the tracks (and the cover art)... title of album did not change though. From looking at the Talk:Body Count (album), 80.134.154.192 needs to read WP:CIVIL.--Isotope23 14:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete Per the nom's original statement (good research btw! I'd nom you for a barnstar for that one!). I also picked up that album for a birthday present from a friend, and Isotope23 is entirely correct on both counts (album and that the anon needs to be a bit more Civil --Bschott 17:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all above, there is no record of the eponymous album ever being released under the name "Cop Killer." Nom is certainly correct. -- H·G (^words/_works) 18:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• This appears to be a case of an album that has the name "Body Count" but is referred to by some fans as "Cop Killer". If that's the case, then rather than deleting this, we should redirect it to the official title of the album. (Normally disambiguated names are not useful redirects, but examples like "(album)", "(film)", and "(song)" are common enough on Wikipedia that it is plausible that people will use titles like this as search terms. And redirects are cheaper than disputes.) — Haeleth Talk 19:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Redirect is appropriate, regardless of whether the anon is correct (He's not. Note, in particular, that Amazon has no used CD listing for Cop Killer. The album was reissued but it was always self-titled.) Gazpacho 00:21, 10 August 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.