Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rihanna's seventh studio album

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 Incubate; the article is now at Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Rihanna's seventh studio album. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:32, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rihanna's seventh studio album[edit]

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Article about the soon-to-be-named seventh studio album by barbadian recording artist Rihanna. Per WP:HAMMER and several notability issues, i think we should wait until notable information directly related to the article appears. Otherwise, this should not be created yet. — ΛΧΣ21™ 17:07, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or incubate per WP:HAMMER. Def Jam France announced the single and album's release date, which afterwards, the single was pushed back. It appears as if Def Jam did not like that, so who knows if they also pushed back the album. The article just consists of people that have stated that they have worked with Rihanna, which can be covered in her main article. Zac 17:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to add that I removed a bunch of quotes that were useless and information about people saying they were writing songs for Rihanna, as there is no confirmation that she will even record them. Zac 17:25, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or incubate per WP:HAMMER. Without a proper article title, the existence of this seems rather pointless. -- WikHead (talk) 17:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per WP: HAMMER. Nothing there is confirmed by a reliable source. Electric Catfish² 17:28, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Lacking confirmation of album title, track, or release date, specifically confirmed by the artist or label, I recommend deletion in accordance with notability guidelines for unreleased albums. Cindy(talk to me) 18:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re-direct or incubate back to Rihanna or Rihanna discography. If an album is going to drop in November, or even January, that's not actually that far away considering we are quite close to October already. Then the article will have to be re-created again. People are too quick to delete something these days, when a simple re-direct or incubate would more than do the job. AARON• ^TALK 21:11, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects are only relevant when there's an actual title to something. This article was clearly hastily created. Zac 21:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So? It's still the album that will be released. It wasn't hastily created. Talk That Talk was created about the same time this time last year, and we didn't know the album title, and was re-directed to her discography or her bio. It would save a lot of hassle, because if we don't find out the name of the album even though there is enough info to create an article about it, we would then just be re-creating a previously deleted page. AARON• ^TALK 21:25, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why all the drama? Noone will die if the page is deleted. And anyways the fat that it will be recreated in the future is not enough rationale to not deleting this, read WP:HAMMER. — ΛΧΣ21™ 21:37, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's right... and anyone worried about losing any of the existing content should take this opportunity to make a personal copy of their favourite revision while they still have the chance to do so. -- WikHead (talk) 21:48, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The creator originally worked it out in their sandbox, and then pasted it into the mainspace: User:Robynloud/sandbox. Zac 23:31, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As 10-pound Hammer says, burn it and hammer the creator. FurrySings (talk) 03:20, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:20, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete— articles are expected to meet the requirements prior to being put into mainspace. This article is a clear breach of WP:CRYSTAL. Till 03:57, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Incubate. — Tomica (talk) 12:54, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Incubate, userfy or redirect. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 ^[talk] 16:26, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Stop... Hammer time!. (Delete). Stalwart111 (talk) 05:54, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Incubate because it ain't gonna take that long for this to be necessary. Adam 94 (talk) 14:21, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Incubate per WP:NALBUMS: No title, incomplete track listing, and no release date. Information about this unreleased album should remain at the artist's article for now, as there is not yet enough reliably sourced information to warrant a stand-alone article about it. Cliff Smith 23:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
incubate or keep. This article will need to be created in about 2 days anyway.--mikomango mwa! 01:56, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It will honestly need to be remade in a few hours after the first single is released, so... 60.225.130.127 (talk) 19:12, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just because the single comes out doesn't mean an album article should be created... What kind of logic is that? The issues still remain. Zac 21:45, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incubate Article creator just move the article into your user space until the time is right.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incubate - WP:HAMMER is not exactly a policy, but is so strongly accepted here as to be de facto a ruling guideline. Bearian (talk) 16:45, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - No official album title yet. --SuperHotWiki (talk) 16:58, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Album clearly fails a few things, but there is not enough to warrant incubation IMO. The entire background section is about her previous two sections and nothing related to this one for Christ sakes. --Shadow (talk) 00:05, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Incubate per WP:NALBUMS: No title yet and no release date confirmed. VítoR™ • (T) 23:57, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.