Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Music of Spider-Verse

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 to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:44, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is an unnecessary fork/split of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack), where this information belongs. The music of the Spider-Verse films has not received enough recognition and commentary to justify a standalone article, and the information in this article can easily be merged into a new "Background" section on the soundtrack articles. It is unusual for film series to have a "Music of ..." article unless it is a massive, long-running franchise whose music has been closely analyzed, such as Music of Star Wars, Music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Music of The Lord of the Rings film series. This is not the case for Spider-Verse, which has so far only had two installments. InfiniteNexus (talk) 01:57, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Music, and Comics and animation. InfiniteNexus (talk) 01:57, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Merge relevant info into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack). Redirect to the former. -- ZooBlazer^talk 02:17, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge content to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack); redirect to the former. BD2412 T 02:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack). Redirect to the former as it was for the first installment. Trailblazer101 (talk) 06:29, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep "Not received enough recognition and commentary"? According to what? The sourcing is there establishing both recognition for the music, as well as ample commentary. I left a few sources in the reference ideas template on the talk page because there is actually even more to pull from, from those sources to include on here (in terms of commentary). I haven't had too much free time this month to expand the article, but will try my best to do so this week. Also "enough recognition" is subjective already, but there is again sourcing that helps establish that the music from these films has earned recognition. ("Sunflower" is literally the highest-charting RIAA single ever; I also found this source explaining how one character's theme from the sequel's score is a common fixture in memes). Will add this source when expanding the article this week. Also feel like the "unusual" factor of "Music of [film series]" articles isn't really relevant in a deletion discussion. Like what does it actually matter that only Star Wars, MCU, LOTR have those articles? Could actually just be editors glossing over valid articles to create. Honing in on "Music of [film series]" articles is also a disservice here, and makes it seem like we don't have a good amount of "Music of..." articles in general here on Wikipedia. They're just not all from film series. Some are from anime, or from video games series, or individual games. Or television series. Or webcomics. Soulbust (talk) 06:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC) — Note to closing admin: Soulbust (talk • contribs) is the creator of the page that is the subject of this AfD. InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:14, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  There is not enough content that cannot be reasonably incorporated into the regular soundtrack articles, so a standalone article is not justified. InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:14, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per rationales above. GreenishPickle! (🔔) 10:16, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per nom and those above. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 13:43, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment There are two short films that exist and a third feature film is already in production, I think its fair to assume that there could be expansion of this article.★Trekker (talk) 09:12, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  We could add a Music section to Spider-Man in film and then redirect this there, as well, assuming there would be enough contents from those shorts on music alone. Trailblazer101 (talk) 16:11, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  I do not think there is enough background or reception info on the music of those two short films, and editors are free to work on the article in draftspace until it comes a time when it is appropriate for mainspace (currently, it's not). InfiniteNexus (talk) 17:14, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge. The article discusses the music for each film separately, so I don't see the need for a standalone article. Pamzeis (talk) 11:56, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and Disambiguate this page, page for the franchise still in draft (Draft:Spider-Verse (franchise)) so soundtrack not needed. Redirect would be ambiguous as could target either film's soundtrack. Thanks, Indagate (talk) 14:58, 30 July 2023 (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.