Talk:Sorry Mrs. Carter

Sorry Mrs. Carter has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: December 4, 2016. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Sorry Mrs. Carter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that rapper Liv released the song "Sorry Mrs. Carter" as an "open letter" to Beyoncé?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sorry Mrs. Carter.

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This article was nominated for deletion on 4 January 2017. The result of the discussion was speedy keep WP:SK criteria 6, page is linked on main page.

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Deletion close

I have closed the deletion discussion as speedy keep, as the page is linked on the main page, and a page linked from there should not be nominated for deletion while it is listed. This is with no prejudice against it being re-nominated once it is off the main page, though anyone considering this might want to review the recent discussion in case that suggests alternatives to deletion.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 22:42, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@JohnBlackburne: Thank you for your message and help with this matter. I believe that this article is notable enough for its own article. The only reason why I created the AFD was that a new user kept putting a delete tag on it. I apologize for any inconvenience or incorrect behavior on my part. Thank you again. Aoba47 (talk) 09:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No need to apologise. You went above and beyond in assuming good faith by the person adding a tag: I would have removed the tags and left it for them to take it to AfD. The policy on not deleting pages linked from the main page is an obscure one that many people are not aware of but a sensible one: pages on the main page have experienced a high level of scrutiny already, via DYK or other processes, or are describing some current event or important anniversary so have many eyes on them and are very likely to be notable. Serious problems with pages on the main page should be first raised at WP:ERRRORS, so they can be removed from the main page, but that is unusual and rarely happens.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 10:53, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response! And that makes perfect sense. I should take some time in the future to read through some of the policy on here. I think this article should be fine as it currently stands, but I will pay close attention to it for the next few days. Aoba47 (talk) 11:37, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]