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 delete and redirect to Compilation album. postdlf (talk) 20:21, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Article has no sources and some unsourced statements. Does not meet notability, in my opinion. StewdioMACK (talk) 15:19, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete not really seeing anything that raises it above a [[WP:DICDEF] - possibly could be reused at Wikitionary? Artw (talk) 18:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:08, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong keep: A very commonly used term in tens of thousands of items and almost in all languages particularly in music albums. There was an earlier deletion request on this and the consensus was to keep it. werldwayd (talk) 17:46, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Various artists. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 22:29, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"A very commonly used term" no matter its usage is not a justification of WP:Notability for a Wikipedia article. And the actual result of the previous AfD was soft redirect to Wikt:various artists, which might have happened, but the Wiktionary page has since been deleted. Mnnlaxer (talk) 14:57, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete It's a commonly used term to credit albums (primarily compilations and soundtracks) with contributions by different artists, yet the contributors are the artist's themselves. The concept itself is not discussed in reliable sources. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 22:21, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Compilation album. This does not need to be kept as an article, as there are no sources and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. However, I don't think outright deletion is the answer, and this is a likely search term. –Chase (talk / contribs) 21:39, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Compilation album per Chasewc91 - Albums like Now that's what I call music have various artists so it's a plausible search term so it makes sense to redirect than delete. –Davey2010^Talk 22:34, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• I've done some digging - Various artists ended up at RFD and was deleted and retargeted to Compilation Album because the Wiktionary article was deleted so it's probably not a wise idea to redirect back to Wiktionary... Just thought I should point that out... –Davey2010^Talk 15:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Red links could be unlinked with Twinkle: Wikipedia:Twinkle/doc#Unlink. A hatnote should be put on Various Artists – Archives Vol. 4 once this AfD is closed. The same situation applies to Various Authors. I've started a thread on the notability of concepts at Wikipedia talk:Notability#Notability of concepts. I think the issue deserves an essay or section of an essay. Mnnlaxer (talk) 15:12, 6 July 2015 (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.