Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Candy Girl

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:38, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Candy Girl

Another SamuraiClinton special. The complete contents of the article (minus headers): "Candy Girl is a song from the 1960's. New Edition made a totally different song with the same title. As of 2004 some rap/hip hop artist recorded a song that interpolated some lyrics and some sequence from the song. (Pop culture occurences) In some commercial for Applebee's." Pointless. Delete. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:33, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Keep if it's a real song. Or is the author actually thinking of "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies? Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:56, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • It's a real song -- I believe the original referred to is by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and I remember when the New Edition song of the same title came out, but does this mean that every song title belongs in Wikipedia if a) two or more songs with that title exist, b) "some rap/hip hop artist" samples it, and c) it gets used in "some commercial"? In my mind, that's just not enough to distinguish it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:12, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. ✏ OvenFresh² 19:38, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons since they are the group most closely associated with the song and there really isn't enough here for a separate article. LevelCheck 20:05, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Either keep or merge and redirect to the album it's on. Meelar (talk) 20:37, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
• merge and redirect to artist or album. -Avocado 20:59, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • RaD Man's argument has changed my mind. keep and disambig. Avocado 22:20, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete SamuraiClintocruft. Where would it possibly be merged and redirected to? RickK 21:23, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete on general principle. There isn't anything here to keep, merge or anything. I've left a stern note on Samurai's talk page. I'm going on record right here and say that if this user leaves just one more of these diddlysquat articles, I'm going to pursue other solutions to this problem. - Lucky 6.9 22:59, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • What "other solutions"? That he needs to get permission from someone else before creating a new article? That's the only thing I can think of that would stop him. Firebug 01:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• I admit I like that idea. Sorry I wasn't clear, though. What I meant was, I'm considering opening an arbitration case against SamuraiClinton if this keeps up. - Lucky 6.9 07:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete — Unless there is something even mildly interesting about these two songs besides having the same title... — RJH 00:40, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect. The original version (Frankie Valli & Four Seasons) is reasonably well known and is played all the time on the oldies stations, so it deserves a redirect. SamuraiClinton should have made this a redirect, not an article. Firebug 01:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Frankie Valli. SamuraiClinton is rather fond of these individual-song nanostubs; I would suggest foregoing the VfD process on any more of these creations and just redirecting to the relevant artist, as I have done with Jump Around. It'll save a lot of work for the admins. android↔talk 02:25, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Frankie Valli. Megan1967 05:09, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• My initial reaction was to suggest a redirect, but given that two different artists have released a song by the same name, my vote is to keep and disambiguate. Redirection is not in the best interest of the prospective reader. —RaD Man (talk) 23:28, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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