Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Burton and Danny Elfman

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 DELETE. Owen× ☎ 00:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tim Burton and Danny Elfman

While I appreciate that Danny Elfman has composed the soundtracks for a number of Tim Burton films (and I acknowledge that their collaboration may go somewhat deeper than that), I don't believe that they are really appropriately thought of as a pair, nor that this article makes a lot of sense. I will also go ahead and appeal to a slippery slope argument; how many hundreds of thousands of occasional collaborations will deserve their own pages now? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 21:24, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom, plus lack of unique content in this article. | Klaw ¡digame! 21:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, but add a mention of the collaboration to both their pages. (Edit: Which I have now done.) But I must admit that they are thought of as a pair. Especially for the case of Williams and Spielberg. Nationalparks 21:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; The argument that MANY other pairs will "deserve" recognition is unfounded, as not NEARLY as many Director/Soundtrack pairs have had as long lasting and successful a relationship as Burton and Elfman have. After Spielberg and Williams, of course. But beyond that, they are the really famous and deserve a relationship article on their jobs together. Otherwise we'd have to go into each of their individual profile articles and add sub-headers about their relationship. This is way easier, and better; I think. --Teenwriter 22:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

It isn't just Director/Composer pairs I'm worried about, but Director/Actor, Actor/Actor, Writer/Director, etc... and that's only in the movies. In general, people in every field of human endeavor sometimes form partnerships with the same people a few times but are still more known as individuals. There are exceptions where the pair is more famous than either individually (Laurel and Hardy, say}, but Tim Burton and Danny Elfman are not such a pair. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:58, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong delete, move list of film scores to Danny Elfman article. --FuriousFreddy 01:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Cover in the main bio articles. Rhollenton 03:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• I have changed my mind after reading all of your comments. I think we should DELETE this article...BUT use this article instead as the "home base" (so to speak) where little "sub articles" can be written about these Producer/Composer combinations. Is that a happy medium? --Teenwriter 16:57, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
  • We don't need the sub-articles. Mention the collaborations on the pages for the director and the composer, and list the films in question on the composer's page. This shouldn't even be this difficult to figure out. --FuriousFreddy 18:59, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. There's no Astaire & Rogers although that's a lot more noteworthy. Jtmichcock 01:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:18, 15 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.