Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warped Tour 2008
- 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 Merge (history keep). Merge action to be completed by others. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 04:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Warped Tour 2008 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
Simply a list of bands that performed as well as a list of venues and cities. Perhaps a simple redirect to Warped Tour is in order, such as the Ozzfest article does. Jmlk17 06:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The number of bands that play the tour each year would make the Warped Tour article entirely too long. It is not a case where there's 8 bands playing 45 cities, there are hundreds of bands each year. These calls for deletions are totally uncalled for. DX927 (talk) 08:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- And furthermore, there wouldn't be anything else on that page because the tour hasn't even happened yet. DX927 (talk) 21:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The number of bands that play the tour each year would make the Warped Tour article entirely too long. It is not a case where there's 8 bands playing 45 cities, there are hundreds of bands each year. These calls for deletions are totally uncalled for. DX927 (talk) 08:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment See also Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Previous_Warped_Tour_bands, which settled on a move to List of Warped Tour lineups by year. Did everybody in that AFD just miss the existence of these, or were they hidden/orphaned in some way? --Dhartung | Talk 08:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Would a merge of the band info (using the sources indicated by the headings as inline citations) to List of Warped Tour lineups by year be an option? -- saberwyn 08:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge would be ideal I believe. Jmlk17 20:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- That page is pointless as it has no sources. Each of the other pages has NUMEROUS sources and is far more complex. And they also aren't "previous" bands. They are current. DX927 (talk) 21:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep As evidenced by Jmlk's nominating statement above people might be confused as to whether this article describes something that already happened, whereas it is about a future event. That could be exacerbated if it were to be merged. Past years are static information, while current information is fluid. WP:CRYSTAL requires extra scrutiny of sources, implieing that such information is of a special character. As such it is a valuable encyclopedic resource, synthesisizing information from various sources. Also merging would create an article of excessive length.When the tour is done it can be merged and, since a good few bands played in previous years, will be comparatively smaller. As to the question of duplication of content I think both layouts of the info have validity. One might want to research what bands played in a given year, or what years a given band played. Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Since this is about an upcoming tour with a large list of bands playing at a large list of venues, I think it should be kept, at least until the tour is over (then it could be merged into the List of Warped Tour lineups by year article). This is slightly different from Ozzfest in that there are roughly 40 bands per show vs. roughly 17. TravisHarder (talk) 18:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - This is just content for the article Warped Tour. The information is covered under WP:NNC but is too large to merge with the main article. Merger to one central article might be possible, but deletion is unnecessary. The topic itself is not WP:CRYSTAL, though individual entries on the page might be. —Torc. (Talk.) 07:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to List of Warped Tour lineups by year. It should be possible to create a table that captures all the information on one page. It is highly unlikely that a tour with so many bands did not generate press coverage, unlike many tours with just one band. Blast Ulna (talk) 09:08, 27 February 2008 (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.