Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Multiple pages in Popular Music

Multiple pages in Popular Music
Hello! I believe that many pages in the book Popular Music unambiguously do not meet the Wikibooks criteria for inclusion due to being overly encyclopedic. These include:


 * Popular Music/Justin Bieber/Love Yourself
 * Popular Music/Adele/Someone Like You
 * Popular Music/Bruno Mars/Grenade
 * Popular Music/Jason Mraz/Have It All
 * Popular Music/Lady Gaga/Bad Romance
 * Popular Music/Luis Fonsi/Despacito
 * Popular Music/Maroon 5/Memories
 * Popular Music/Taylor Swift/Blank Space
 * Popular Music/The Weeknd/Save Your Tears
 * Popular Music/Train/Drive By

The content of these pages all seems more suitable for Wikipedia and unsuitable for here, per Wikibooks is not an encyclopedia. I noted on the book's discussion page how I feel the book could be improved to be more suitable for Wikibooks. If the pages can be reworked, or if the information contained therein can be integrated somewhere more appropriate, they would not necessarily need to be deleted outright!

@Inner Focus I'm pinging you since you've contributed to several of these pages. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. Cheers! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:51, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * unless Inner Focus chooses to move these to their userspace (it will still be out-of-scope, but at least we're not throwing their efforts in the bin). I can't see how these specific songs can ever be integrated with Wikibooks' other existing books, but I'll leave that to those who work more on content than I do. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 08:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * I vaguely remember this rule being interpreted differently in the past, but despite this I can't find anything to back that up.
 * This might also affect the following Wikibooks:
 * The Complete Encyclopedia of Self-Help Techniques - Self described encyclopedia.
 * The Unicyclopedia - Self described encyclopedia.
 * The platform section (Not the whole book) of History of video games. This one's on me, sorry. (The aforementioned memory led me to conclude this was OK)
 * Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 23:15, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I think The Unicyclopedia wouldn't be affected because even though it self describes as an encyclopedia, it still feels more like a guidebook with a specific focus on unicycling. If it consisted solely of pages that each described in excess detail a component of a unicycle (analogous to the Popular Music pages I mentioned), that might be less appropriate. As it stands, though, The Unicyclopedia seems reasonably structured, with a clear aim and interdependency between pages. Cheers! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 22:20, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * per above. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:43, 28 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Inner Focus It seems that consensus is that it should be deleted—you may want to move it elsewhere where it would be more suitable. Cheers! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 17:27, 19 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I have trimmed such articles, leaving only an infobox of the song, music video information, and the view count milestone tables. Sorry, I don't know how to make an infobox for music and songs, and unfortunately, Wikibooks didn't have one. I created one a few minutes ago, but it appears not to be working properly. This is why I am using a table instead to give the basic info of a song. Inner Focus (discuss • contribs) 15:38, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @Inner Focus thank you for your effort in trimming them, but I unfortunately still believe that the pages as they stand are overly encyclopedic in nature. Could you clarify the intended scope of the pages and how you believe they fit into the book as a whole? I've made some proposals regarding the scope/structure of the book as a whole. Thank you! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 19:31, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete. Too enclyclopedic.--Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Estonia.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag_of_Ukraine.svg|15px]] talk 03:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Popular Music/More X vs Less not X
This page appears to have nothing to do with the book Popular Music. Unless it has a home somewhere else on wikibooks, it seems to me like it should be deleted (or at least removed from Popular Music. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 22:10, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * also don't understand the scope of that page. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 10:53, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * per above. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:43, 28 January 2023 (UTC)