Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Jackson Family

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 keep. Johnleemk | Talk 17:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Jackson Family

Highly, highly unneccessary, and full of biased language (a certain "f"-word applies here...no, not the censorable one). Each member of the musical Jackson family from Gary, Indiana already has their own article (that's Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Randy Jackson, Rebbie Jackson, LaToya Jackson, and even Joseph Jackson and Katherine Jackson...and Hayvenhurst as well! On top of all of this, there is also a Category:Jackson family. There is no need for this long amalgamation of the information from all twelve of those articles. --FuriousFreddy 22:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep after cleanup and possibly renaming to include (band), (music) or something similar in the title, to disambiguate it from, say, the Jackson family that lives in the next street to me.. This seems to be the sort of thing someone would put into the WP searchbox and I can't see how it could be redirected to any one member. The Jackson dab page mentions "The musical Jackson family, why not have a decent article about the family itself? Tonywalton  | Talk 23:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but cleaup. The discography must go. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:59, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but edit down to a much shorter article written in Wikipedia:Summary style. Maybe it's actually easier to rewrite from scratch for that. Kusma (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Needs a lot of work, but Keep. The family (as a family) is definitely notable enough to warrant an article (as a family). --Elliskev 00:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I think it's notable enough due to high number of members who went on to be notable (world-famous, in fact). 23skidoo 01:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

• Notability is not an issue: manageability is. Remove discography and subarticles about Joe, Michael, Janet, and Jeramaine; minimize discussion of solo activities (leave them in the individual articles instead); and clean up. Eliminate details that are duplicated in the individual stand-alone articles. Keep the focus on the family and it will be a good article of a proper size. B.Wind 06:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Commnet. I cut the article down to a stub, so that we can start it over again. Also, the article should be moved to The Jackons (musical family) when the AfD is over. --FuriousFreddy 14:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Jackson family. --Apostrophe 04:23, 9 December 2005 (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.