Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme

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The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 03:08, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme[edit]

Memoirs by Mary Wilson, essentially the story of her group, The Supremes. An anon made it last night to represent a reference to an incorrect fact they attempted to add to the article (ironically, the very reference they claimed supported their fact actually disproves it). Anyways, there's no point to have this article, as nothing links to it except a misformatted re-direct page. The book is covered in all the detail it needs to be covered in within the Supremes and Mary Wilson articles. Redirect, perhaps? --b. Touch 20:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

If it was really "one of the most successful rock and roll autobiographies ever published," or even a reasonably successful one as I'm sure it was, I would like to be able to see it in Category:Autobiographies, Category:1986 books, and either Category:Music books or Category:Popular culture books or something related. Keep, expand (reverse merge information about it from Mary Wilson (singer) and The Supremes?) Samaritan 20:53, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- If we are to reverse-merge (not a bad idea, Samaritan), what should we do about the sequel? Wilson wrote two books: Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme covers the Diana Ross years, Supreme Faith: Someday We'll be Together covers the rest of the group's history and Wilson's own solo career. If we make the article about both books, do we need to list it under Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme (the 2000 reprint/combination title) or do we just need to set up redirects and leave everything in the article that presently exists? --b. Touch 21:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  - Oooh, good question. I'd think the 2000 combination title, but keep the [year] books categories for the originals (and maybe 2000, especially if anything significant was added). I wish it was possible to pipe membership in categories so it Dreamgirl:... would show as the 1986 book, etc. even if they redirected to a common title. Samaritan 22:02, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    - Well, we did it. The Wilson and Supremes articles were reverse-merged into the Dreamgirl article. I...guess were finished here, then. --b. Touch 00:24, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
      - Btw, I guess I've changed my vote to Keep. --b. Touch 22:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
What makes the redirect misformatted? The article was originally at Dreamgirl: my life as a supreme, and I did a Move to the current title. The redirect is correctly formatted. RickK 20:55, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
- I meant that the original page was the misformatted one. The Dreamgirl: my life as a supreme page. --b. Touch 21:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Keep. This is a very well-known autobiography. --Centauri 21:01, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Merge into Mary Wilson. I have that book, there's a cool embossed gold record thing on the cover. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:05, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
Merge into Mary Wilson (singer), no redirect. Megan1967 03:03, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Another vote for merge into Mary Wilson. It's a notable book, but it's unlikely anyone looking for information on Wilson or the Supremes would type the title in first. 23skidoo 05:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Keep Notable biography. If it is the will of the majority to delete this article, then merge with Mary Wilson.Capitalistroadster 10:25, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Weak keep. Barely notable biography. --JuntungWu 04:11, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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