Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of artists who have sampled Michael Jackson

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The result was delete. Courcelles 00:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of artists who have sampled Michael Jackson

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This seems to be merely a list of trivia. LadyofShalott 01:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. — Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 01:42, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 01:43, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Why Michael Jackson? The bottom line is that this is trivia for the sake of trivia. Carrite (talk) 01:43, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete "Avoid creating lists of miscellaneous information" (WP:TRIVIA) fits exactly per nom MadCow257 (talk) 03:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Given that the song pages exist, this information could easily be included within those articles. This is an unnecessary content fork, not to mention entirely trivia. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 04:05, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
delete the sort of narrow-interest obsessive detail that usually is better suited to a specialty wiki than an encyclopedia. HominidMachinae (talk) 05:08, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Pretty much a trivia list with no real-world coverage. Lugnuts (talk) 17:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Could this be merged somewhere into his discography? If not, I vote delete — Status {^talk_contribs 07:37, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Inappropriate to allow such an article to exist as a precedent would be established and a plethora of articles for other artists would be created.Curb Chain (talk) 21:48, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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