Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Reason Is You

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 keep. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:38, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Reason Is You[edit]

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Non-notable single. Sources in the article are unreliable, and no reliable ones could be found with a web search. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 03:53, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:21, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Fansites may not be an RS, but do you really contest that it didn't chart on any of the 4 major charts listed? Sergecross73 msg me 01:40, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- The source for the chart is [1], a primary source. The article could be redirected to Nina Gerhard if and when that article gets created, but right now it only exists on the German Wikipedia. Until an English version of the German article is created, deletion is appropriate. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 22:22, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e^talk 23:56, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Arguably more likely to be searched for in reference to the Hoobastank song The Reason. KaisaL (talk) 17:41, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The song definitely made #2 in the Belgian chart, as confirmed [1990s-The-Reason-Is-You here], a reliable site for chart positions. (A second single by her also reached #17.) I would therefore keep this, although prioritise also creating her actual article. It's odd to have a page for a song but not the artist, but the deletion criteria for that only really covers situations where the artist hasn't got an article for notability purposes. This article is a good start for this single, so I'd be against removing it. A short article for Nina Gerhard would be the ideal solution here. KaisaL (talk) 01:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have now created an article at Nina Gerhard, which while brief should eliminate this problem. KaisaL (talk) 01:55, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and I nearly closed as such as there's enough to keep here. SwisterTwister talk 07:50, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Shown notability in charting, end of story as far as I'm concerned. GauchoDude (talk) 18:33, 5 January 2017 (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.