Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2 Bad

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The result was redirect to HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. JForget 22:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2 Bad[edit]

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"2 Bad" is a track from Michael Jackson's HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I album. However, it fails the notability guideline for songs, as it has received little indepth coverage in reliable sources. I propose that the article be redirected to the HIStory album and salted, as efforts to maintain the redirect of this unnotable song article have been continually reverted. Pyrrhus16 21:25, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ALTHOUGH! "2 Bad" is featured on the short film by Jackson "Ghosts" and was edited and cropped into a film song. Another example that this SHOULD meet the the notability guideline for songs is the fact that track #11 on HIStory is Tabloid Junkie which has its own page with coverage yet no sources. Besides "2 Bad" is a growing article, and Wikipedia is a free ENCYCLOPEDIA, it would only be fair for every song that's high in popularity to have an article! So, I suggest that the redirect to HIStory should be STOPPED! and this article be kept, there's over 1 million users on Wiki and BILLIONS of people visit this site, we should help them with all the information on whatever they need.--72.9.20.77 (talk) 21:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, please see WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS. Secondly, there is more coverage in reliable sources for "Tabloid Junkie" than there is for "2 Bad". Thirdly, nobody is stopping the millions from finding information about this song. However, they can find it in the appropriate place; the album article. Pyrrhus16 21:44, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~Redirect: although there are a few mentions when searching "2 Bad by Michael Jackson" at Excite, there are just as many hits for "One Chord Song by Keith Urban" which was never released except as a hidden song on the Golden Road album. Furthermore, I'm a Michael Jackson fan as well as a few friends I've asked, and they've never heard of it either. It deserves a mention in the encyclopedia, but I don't think it deserves its own article as it doesn't appear to be one of MJ's hits or anything. PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 22:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. For a song to meet WP:NSONGS, there must exist "enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article." I can not find such coverage for this song in any WP:RS. Gongshow ^Talk 23:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. —J04n(talk page) 23:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:31, 29 November 2009 (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.