Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Où Aller

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 19:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Où Aller

I have brought this forward so that the Community can take a view as to whether songs that have performed dismally in the Eurovision Song Contest merit their own article. There is already an article on Eurovision Song Contest 1998, for example, where most of the information is contained. The rest of the encyclopaedic information can easilly be merged into the main article with an extension to the table. It is hard to see how such songs need their own article. Separate articles also have another problem - they splinter the information making it harder for the reader who has to keep switching articles. Merge and redirect. BlueValour 17:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge to Marie Line. Karol 17:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep as author - we've been through this before (Gimme and Du Bist). A song performed at the Eurovision Song Contest is notable by virtue of the fact that it won a national pre-selection to get there, was performed representing a country at an international competition viewed throughout one continent (Europe) and in a number of places worldwide. The article doesn't look too crash hot right at the moment, but in time a lot of the "splintering" will in fact be worked around and the effect will be similar to articles on people who've held offices and things. BigHaz 22:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - first of all, nominating one song in a pretty haphazard manner seems rather strange to me, why not all of them at the same time? Is it any different from the other Eurovision Song articles? Secondly, while I had my reservations about the individual song articles, there were actually two previous identical cases (see links above) and the results were "keep". So I guess it is pretty pointless to reiterate that, as I believe the community consensus has already been reached (unless something new is being added to the discussion, which I believe is not the case). Regards, Bravada, talk - 23:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It meets wikipedia standards. Regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 23:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - How well the song performed in Eurovision is not relevant. The fact is, it was THE one and only song which went forward to represent an entire nation in one year: which makes it very notable. Some songs will only have a little bit of information at first; some will have a lot. But the ones with little information must be given a chance to grow. If this was were an anonymous national final song (of which there have been many thousands over the years), it would be different – but no, this was the song which represented France in 1998. EuroSong ^talk 23:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep per what I said at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Du Bist. At the least teh song would have won a national competition for that year and likely it was shown to a wide audience in that year at least in that country. We don't delete people from World Idol because they did poorly, they were national champions at least. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:31, 25 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.