Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Legend of Zelda (song) 2

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 of the debate was delete. WP:MUSIC and WP:RS primary here. Proto///type 15:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Legend of Zelda (song)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Legend of Zelda (song) - Previous nomination

No citation from a third party, no indication of notability, nothing to merge meaningfully into. - brenneman ^{L} 00:32, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I would argue that it is notable, although it may not perfectly fit according to Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Notability and Music Guidelines/Songs, which is currently just a proposed policy after all. It is at least fairly well known as an internet phenomenon, and I would argue that the article, though short, does add an important piece of information about it by stating that it is not a System of a Down song as is commonly believed. A quick look at the talk page for System of a Down shows that this is a fairly widely held belief. I'll admit that it might be hard to find sources for something like this, but I still think that it is notable and the sources issue can most likely be worked out.--Derco 00:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's just another meme, not worthy of cleanup or research. -- Mikeblas 00:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:MUSIC and WP:MEME; hasn't been subject of any major media works--TBCTaLk?!? 01:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable meme. SM247^{My Talk} 02:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: WP:MUSIC, WP:MEME. --Randy Johnston (‽) 02:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above and because of the recently closed AfD. If the nom wants sources for this, a better way to start might be to leave a message on the talk page and/or use templates, rather than prodding in violation of prod rules and rapidly renominating on AfD. --JJay 02:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • "...because of the recently closed AfD"? Did you see the 6-2 delete-keep vote at that AfD? -- Kicking222 12:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, nothing has changed since the last time, still notable due to the misattribution to System of a Down. Still an excellent example as to why we need to figure outa guideline for net memes. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Can we have a third party source for the misattribution? - brenneman ^{L} 04:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Unfrotunately, not anything that would be acceptable at this juncture, as this had its heyday a number of years ago. --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:32, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge info into articles on System of a Down and/or The Legend of Zelda. I'm all for articles on net memes, but this isn't a terribly important one. Penelope D 04:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, fails WP:MUSIC and WP:MEME. The AfD renomination policy does not apply because the previous result was no consensus, and there aren't many contributors to this article (just one or two). --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 04:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not really notable. Its only claim to fame is the fact that a bunch of people thought it was by SOAD, but that's not article-worthy in my opinion. WarpstarRider 04:53, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable to begin with, and no sources to boot. Titoxd^(?!?) 05:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn internet phenomenon. Possibly merge a line about it's existence into The Legend of Zelda. MLA 06:27, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with The Legend of Zelda article, or a more relevent one if availible. --Ted87 06:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable internet fad. No reliable sources. It fails WP:MUSIC, WP:WEB and also WP:MEME. It just fails. - Motor (talk) 08:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete WP:CSD#A3 No content whatsoever. Ste4k 10:45, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Motor; misses WP:MUSIC by a very long way. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It's unsourced and it's simply non-notable. I think Motor summed it up pretty well. -- Kicking222 12:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Motor. -- GWO
• Delete per WP:WEB, WP:MEME and above hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 14:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:MUSIC, WP:MEME. put misattribution on System of a Down, if it can be sourced. --Samael775 16:04, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Samael1775. Zos 16:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, please take note. I just substantially rewrote the citations. If your delete vote was on something other than notability grounds, please reevaluate the article. I'd suggest reevaluating the article anyway. On notability grounds, furthermore, this squeaks by fairly well; the misattribution became fairly notorious. Captainktainer * Talk 18:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • The link provided in the article seems to say nothing about the misattribution? - brenneman ^{L} 08:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable both for its common misattribution to SOAD and as a meme (separate from its SOAD connection). The citation for the misattribution still needs work, though. On a personal note, I had been under the impression that this song was recorded by SOAD until I read this article, and I believe many others still are. --Michael 20:03, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - really not worthy of its own article -- Alias Flood 02:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
• merge with something. Joeyramoney 03:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable song. It's already mentioned in The Legend of Zelda series article, so there is no need for a separate article. --Musicpvm 08:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I hate to spoil the work of editors who know what they're doing, but this article barely says anything about its subject, and everything nontrivial it says, it has no reliable source for. Mangojuice^talk 13:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 03:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per comments above. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 03:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Either merge somewhere and delete, or just delete, per Mangojuice et al. -- Hoary 07:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - While I enjoy the song, I agree with deletion reasons listed above. Wickethewok 14:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• It's a good song, and I appreciate the effort of the contributors, but is there really anything much to say about it? I see the article for the band itself has been deleted, elsewhise I'd suggest redirecting there, with an appropriate section. Luna Santin 07:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with The Legend of Zelda series - it's worth a mention, but as is the case for most other songs, doesn't need its own article. --Aguerriero (talk) 14:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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.