Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stranger in the House (song)

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The result was keep. But a Keep decision doesn't disallow a future decision to turn this article into a redirect. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stranger in the House (song)[edit]

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No sources since 2015. Based on the books I have access to info for this song can easily be put into This Year's Model, which I'm in the middle of expanding currently. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 01:46, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 01:46, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I would have thought there was a case for a redirect to My Very Special Guests or Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers. Doctorhawkes (talk) 03:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 04:32, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Found few sources. Knight Skywalker (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Knight Skywalker Care to add those? – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 18:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.wideopencountry.com/elvis-costello-stranger-in-the-house/ Knight Skywalker (talk) 02:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to pass notability guideline with sources such as this. I think that it would have been better to treat whether or not to redirect as an editing decision for talk page discussion rather than have a deletion discussion. Deletion discussions tend to become polarised with hardly anyone actually changing their position as more facts come to light. Phil Bridger (talk) 10:33, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep thanks to the sources found by the folks above. (My vote is "Weak" because there is also a valid case for redirecting, but if so I recommend sending it to the George Jones album.) The unusual collaboration got some media notice and has been discussed in books, meaning that there is enough precise material for this song, but the article definitely needs to be spruced up with reliable sources. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - enough sources to establish notability, and redirection would be problematic because it could reasonably go to several different Costello albums (My Aim Is True is as appropriate as This Year's Model, and Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers is appropriate too) as well as the Jones album and while it appeared first on the Jones album there seems to be more discussion about it in the context of Costello's writing. For example, Costello's quote about his performance on the duet probably would be appropriate within the context of My Very Special Guests but the material about the song in the context of Costello's later country songs probably does not fit into the context of the Jones' album. So keeping is the most appropriate solution. Rlendog (talk) 20:17, 7 March 2022 (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.