Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karn Evil 9

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The result was keep. Tone 15:19, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Karn Evil 9

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Song article based on blogs, non-independent sources, and a couple of listicles (plus the usual original research and speculation). Could reasonably be a redirect to the album, but an editor attempted that and was reverted. RL0919 (talk) 12:18, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. RL0919 (talk) 12:18, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Just the first page of a Google Books search shows multiple books which devote more than a paragraph to this song: The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock, Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978. Plus it has significant coverage from websites like allmusic (which has a separate article for each part, e.g., [1], [2], [3], [4]), a few other online sources include this and this. Which is not surprising for a touchstone of prog rock. The current article may need better sourcing, but that sourcing exists. Rlendog (talk) 13:09, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Of course if we choose not to keep the article we should redirect to the album, especially given that most album reviews devote a significant portion of the content to this song, and since it is a likely search term. Rlendog (talk) 13:16, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - See WP:NEXIST. The previous voter easily found many reliable sources for this well-known song. The article needs better references, not deletion. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 13:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Rlendog. Aoba47 (talk) 19:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve per Rlendog. De Guerre (talk) 06:32, 9 October 2019 (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.