The result was keep. Somebody needs to prune down the album references in the article, but it is otherwise a notable song. ( non-admin closure) Logan Talk Contributions 01:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC) reply
Multiple reasons. First, fails WP:NSONGS: it never charted, never won an award, and has not been covered by multiple notable artists. In an effort to compensate for this, the article has been written to appear as if it has sources. Unfortunately, it does not. It is kind of a strange WP:COATRACK for covering the molestation charges against Jackson. As the article itself states, "The vast majority of mainstream music reviewers did not provide a critical analysis of "D.S." in their reviews of HIStory and any analysis only covered the connection to Tom Sneddon and the song's genre." The "Background" section of this article serves as a recap of the molestation trial. When it comes to "Themes and Genre", the opening sentence is WP:OR: the cited source for ""D.S." has very similar themes to the rest of HIStory, creating an atmosphere of paranoia." is http://www.allmusic.com/album/r216079, which doesn't mention the song except in a tracklisting. The rest of the section is devoted to the album, not the song. Most of "Other works and aftermath" section doesn't use sources that refers to this song, merely pointing out that Jackson made other works that referred to the case. One source does mention the song being sung by protesters ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/13/michaeljackson.michaeljacksontrial5) but it's hard to consider that particularly reliable since it can't even get the lyrics to the song right. There are sources that cover the apparent reference to Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr., but none of those sources contain confirmation from Jackson, which raises BLP issues (in fairness, I'm not certain what level of sourcing we actually need to avoid BLP problems). — Kww( talk) 03:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC) reply
The result was keep. Somebody needs to prune down the album references in the article, but it is otherwise a notable song. ( non-admin closure) Logan Talk Contributions 01:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC) reply
Multiple reasons. First, fails WP:NSONGS: it never charted, never won an award, and has not been covered by multiple notable artists. In an effort to compensate for this, the article has been written to appear as if it has sources. Unfortunately, it does not. It is kind of a strange WP:COATRACK for covering the molestation charges against Jackson. As the article itself states, "The vast majority of mainstream music reviewers did not provide a critical analysis of "D.S." in their reviews of HIStory and any analysis only covered the connection to Tom Sneddon and the song's genre." The "Background" section of this article serves as a recap of the molestation trial. When it comes to "Themes and Genre", the opening sentence is WP:OR: the cited source for ""D.S." has very similar themes to the rest of HIStory, creating an atmosphere of paranoia." is http://www.allmusic.com/album/r216079, which doesn't mention the song except in a tracklisting. The rest of the section is devoted to the album, not the song. Most of "Other works and aftermath" section doesn't use sources that refers to this song, merely pointing out that Jackson made other works that referred to the case. One source does mention the song being sung by protesters ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/13/michaeljackson.michaeljacksontrial5) but it's hard to consider that particularly reliable since it can't even get the lyrics to the song right. There are sources that cover the apparent reference to Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr., but none of those sources contain confirmation from Jackson, which raises BLP issues (in fairness, I'm not certain what level of sourcing we actually need to avoid BLP problems). — Kww( talk) 03:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC) reply