Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King Of Pop

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 of the debate was Redirect. --Ichiro 04:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King Of Pop

My first AFD of 2006. Nonencyclopedic, totally POV ... really could have speedied this somehow but the author would learn better what should go on Wikipedia if I put it here. Daniel Case 07:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. It needs a MAJOR rewrite, but it's a phrase which is commonly used, and not only in reference to Michael Jackson (ie. in Australia, some call John Farnham the king of Australian pop). Cnwb 07:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Michael Jackson. Kelvin Martinez removed the AfD tag and another Wikipedian redirected the article to Michael Jackson. I have restored the article to the original version with the AfD tag. I have also placed a warning on Kelvin Martinez talk page. Movementarian 08:11, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect as before, no need to bother with afd. Gazpacho 08:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Michael Jackson. Yes, the media is responsible for starting to call him that which makes it verifiable and now it's a phrase commonly used to describe Jackson. If there's an Australian King of Pop it can be added or made into a dab, but there's no reason to delete it. - Mgm|^(talk) 13:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Michael Jackson, who is widely acknowledged as such. --Thephotoman 13:58, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Micheal Jackson Sceptre ^(Talk) 18:06, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up. After MJ, there could well be another self-declared King (or a TV show by that name) and redirecting would trap the title. 18:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. AT the moment MJ is the King of Pop. Should the need to disambiguate ever arise, the redirect could be easily undone. There could be another King of Rock and Roll, but it is unlikely that someone will ever get the title from Elvis. Movementarian 18:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Michael Crapson. No useful content to merge. — JIP | Talk 20:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Michael Jackson, per all the above comments. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 07:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect. -Sean Curtin 04:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect as above. Will probably wind up as a dab at some point. Vegaswikian 05:26, 4 January 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.