Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna Summer discography

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. As a merge-back did not have unanimous consensus and involves pages that didn't link to this discussion, I'll punt it to a dedicated merge discussion. This page's history has to stay for attribution reasons, though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:01, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Donna Summer discography

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Delete -There exists separate Donna Summer albums discography and Donna Summer singles discography pages, in addition to this page. This article duplicates the information contained on those two separate pages, and does not appear to have been updated, with current references, as frequently as the other two. The separate albums and singles discography pages are linked on the main Donna Summer article. Nqr9 (talk) 03:43, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. ^Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 04:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. ^Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 04:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was an article split, and the page looked like this quite happily for five years, preserving the edit history and author attribution (which were not carried over), until just over a month ago someone undid that. Always check the edit histories when nominating things at AFD. Deletion is, after all, the removal of the edit history and authorship (from view), so one should be aware of what one is asking about. Uncle G (talk) 12:51, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - since the separate singles and albums discographies were split from this article, this article must not be deleted to preserve attribution. That said, it is actually the separate album and singles discographies that should be deleted, since the split was unnecessary and contrary to the treatment of other musicians' discographies. Rlendog (talk) 13:32, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Or if the separate singles and album articles have been updated more frequently than the main article, that information should be merged into the main article and the separate album and singles articles should be redirected to preserve attribution. Rlendog (talk) 13:34, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another option, if the separate album and singles pages are to remain, is to redirect Donna Summer discography to Donna Summer#Discography. That would preserve the history while removing the duplication. postdlf (talk) 18:05, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:56, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:57, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect Donna Summer albums discography and Donna Summer singles discography Back Into This Article - I don't think that old page split described by Uncle G above was a good idea, per WP:CONTENTFORK. Now we have two pairs of articles (Discography/Albums Discography AND Discography/Singles Discography) repeating each other's information. If a new greatest hits album were released next week, it would be necessary to update two different Discography articles and there is no guarantee that a user would know to do both, thus making two articles on the same thing inconsistent with each other. Or, enthusiastic maintainers of Donna Summer articles have to do everything twice, which is redundant and likely to cause errors eventually. Put everything back into one Discography article. It's okay of that article ends up being very long, because Donna had such a long and accomplished career. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:52, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a reasonable option.Nqr9 (talk) 02:51, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this article and delete the other two as per User:doomsdayer520. It is okay to have one long article. However, I would trim some of the irrelevant and unsourced content about her label associations. Even if the content can be sourced, it still not belong in the discography, which is essentially just a list.--Rusf10 (talk) 00:13, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The other two articles have more-accurate chart positions/better references, though.Nqr9 (talk) 02:51, 19 June 2019 (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.