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The result was merge to Ghost-riding. MBisanz ^talk 00:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost Ride It[edit]

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Has received nowhere near enough coverage to warrant a stand-alone article (just one source), and did not appear on any major music chart - surely fails WP:NSONGS and WP:N. The album that it was released as a single from is up for deletion as well, so I suggest a delete instead of a redirect. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 11:06, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 11:46, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge to Ghost-riding or Mistah F.A.B.. The article may only have a single cite, but there are plenty more out there. Google News archive finds 80 hits. Granted, the news stories are primarily in the context of the ghost-riding fad. It's place on official charts was stunted through its being withdrawn in the wake of outcry over the dangerous ghost-riding association and objections from the Ghostbusters copyright/trademark owners; however, it surely had a large popular appeal--there are millions of Youtube hits across multiple video versions, and last.fm records 600,000+ listens. Multiple reliable sources have noted its musical/popular success--"his breakout single" (Allmusic), "F.A.B.'s stupidly great single" (Pitchfork), "a modern masterpiece" (Harvard Crimson), "irresistibly catchy" (sportsillustrated.cnn.com). There is not really that much material here, though, so I think that it could be comfortably accommodated in either target article. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 18:34, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 05:58, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per Hobbes This phenomenon was very much like a meme, or an Internet fad like planking or tebowing, and this song was central to the phenomenon's wider popularity. I don't think it has independent notability, but I think it would best be merged with the Ghostriding article. Cdtew (talk) 02:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran (t • c) 10:11, 4 February 2013 (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.