Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dirty Magic

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 Redirect to Ignition (album). D.M.N. (talk) 18:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dirty Magic

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Non notable album track with no useful information. Never released as a single. Previous Prod deleted, finally got around to AfD Nouse4aname (talk) 13:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment Sorry, rubbish explanation. Fails Wikipedia:Notability. Nouse4aname (talk) 13:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect to Ignition (album), which is actually quite a good album, unlike what The Offspring did later which was crap.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 02:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment. Actually, should have suggested that option too, but I wanted the decision to be saved somewhere incase of future edits that revert it back to a pointless stub! Oh, and what do you mean crap? "Why Don't You Get a Job" was awesome.....Nouse4aname (talk) 09:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a rip-off of The Beatles' Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. I just don't like their later music. But Wikipedia is not a forum. The current consensus seems to be that redirecting non-notable songs to the appropriate album is the most acceptable thing to do - better than deletion in some ways, yet it other ways it could prove problematic considering the number of album track names that exist - if redirects existed for every track on every notable album, people may find that they end up on a page when they were actually looking for something else.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 06:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

That's a legitimate concern, but in this particular case, anyway, I don't think there's any overlap for the phrase "Dirty magic", and any future overlaps can be worked out when they happen TheBilly (talk) 16:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect to album. No reliable sources at present and lack of notability. Seraphim ^Whipp 15:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect per above. I own this album on a worn-out cassette tape and like this particular song as well as all the others, but it's not one of their more important ones. Per WP:MUSIC, "Most songs do not merit an article and should redirect to another relevant article, such as for a prominent album or for the artist who wrote or prominently performed the song." TheBilly (talk) 16:00, 3 January 2008 (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.