Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spice Girls discography

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.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  06:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spice Girls discography

The Spice Girls discography is an un-needed article that contains a lot of inaccurate and inappropriate information. The group released only three albums and 10 singles - so that information can easily be merged with the main Spice Girls article. The rest of the information in the article relates to the solo releases made by each member of the group; a Melanie C album release, for example, shouldn't be included on a article detailing information relating to the group that she used to be in. Also, the solo information already exists in the Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Melanie B, Geri Halliwell and Melanie C articles - so it is simply repeating already existing information.

So I propose that the Spice Girls discography be deleted and the information relating to Spice Girls' release be merged with Spice Girls article. Rimmers 17:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep I wouldn't advocate keeping an article like this for a garage band or obscure local group, but with 50+ million wordwide record sales and at one time being the biggest band in the world, I'd say some level of discographical information is appropriate. I also like that it includes the solo work all in one article, it makes it easier to compare the girls' solo careers than flipping between 5 different articles. Definitely a keeper. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:52, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per nom. There is a spice girls category; this is what categories are meant to be used for. Han-Kwang 19:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per nom and Han-Kwang. Tonywalton  | Talk 19:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge back into main article. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 19:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, even if the solo information is removed, I think there is too much information for it to be merged into the already large Spice Girls article. Hundreds of musicians have separate discography articles (as can be seen in Category:Discographies). --musicpvm 06:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - certainly an appropriate article given their enormous commercial success and too big to be merged. Much better than having to navigate 5-6 different pages. Ac@osr 10:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I agree with what Musicpvm says. Evil Eye 15:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for several reasons: there are other similar discography articles out there, there's a lot of information here, and the group was extremely popular. I don't see a problem with this and I think we'll probably see more of these discography style articles in the future. 23skidoo 02:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, as there is a lot of information, and the Spice Girls were big in their heyday, but delete solo info per nom. Just because they were once a Spice Girl doesn't mean that they must be stuck with that label forever.... SKS2K6 04:35, 24 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.