Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Man at the Top (song)

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The result was redirect‎ to Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album). Owen× ☎ 19:48, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Man at the Top (song)[edit]

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Only one reference (a bad one at that). Margotin and Guesdon's book only has one paragraph on the song. There could be other sources, but it doesn't show enough notability to warrant its own article. It can be merged to Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album). – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 19:27, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 19:27, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:35, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album), its parent album. This article is from the WP dark ages when it was more acceptable to create separate articles for all of a famous musician's songs, but it no longer satisfies modern notability requirements. All we have is some minor fan trivia, and the fact that Springsteen only played it live three times is telling. The cited media opinions about the lyrics in one verse are speculative at best. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album) per WP:NSONG, where standalone articles on even notable songs are regarded as: "appropriate only when there is enough material to warrant a reasonably detailed article; articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album". I would encourage anyone finding an article on a non-notable song to simply redirect it. If the redirect is contested, that's the time to bring it to AfD for discussion. SilkTork (talk) 15:15, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
SilkTork I remember I tried doing that a few times (years ago) to similar articles similar to this but was reverted and was told to bring it here so that's what I did. But I'll keep that in mind for the future. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 18:45, 11 February 2024 (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.