Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Block Party (album)

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:56, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Block Party (album)

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Per WP:NALBUMS, "an album should not have an independent article until its title, track listing and release date have all been publicly confirmed by the artist or their record label". This album is a poster child for the reasoning behind that guideline. It has a section labeled "confirmed tracks", but that section is sourced to a fansite on blogspot.com. There's a section labeled "unconfirmed tracks" (bad enough in and of itself), and that section is sourced to four year old rumours with no demonstrable relevance to any current plans. The questionable information in this article even includes the statement that it probably won't be released under this title: "In February 2012, Missy Elliott announced on Twitter that the album would most likely not be named 'Block Party'". Of course, that quote is nearly a year old and no album has yet been confirmed, so who knows if it has any relationship to reality. This article has been around for over five years, and it is still impossible to write an article that satisfies WP:V's mandate that we "Base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". —Kww(talk) 01:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - the album title is based on a tweet and on an interview with Elle Magazine (which has since been removed) so we don't even have a reliable source to verify the title. Despite the excellent speculation about what might appear on an album at some stage with an unconfirmed title and a yet-to-be-confirmed release date, I don't think there's enough there to avoid "the hammer". Stalwart111 03:38, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per nominator, this is a textbook fail of WP:NALBUMS and WP:CRYSTAL. There is an impressive number of references there, which amount to nothing more than rumors from what seem to be non-reliable sources. WP:TOOSOON at best. §FreeRangeFrog 04:48, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. — sparklism ^hey! 08:40, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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