Deletion of Death of Prince

Comment: I am seeing notable tributes in the form of cover songs dedicated to Prince by Chris Cornell http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-chris-cornells-passionate-prince-tribute-nothing-compares-2-u-20160422, to having his music goto #1 on the Billboard top #200. http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7341679/prince-the-very-best-of-album-headed-no-1-billboard-200. There are also questions on who will inherit his fortune. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-will-inherit-princes-musical-fortune/ per  this should be kept, and improved upon
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LASTING)

Comment: Two editor support keeping the article for  reasons, saying "Prince (musician) is already over 125KB, per  this is a valid content fork". Prince (musician) is however only 53 kB (9116 words) "readable prose size" in its {{oldid|Prince (musician)|716746126|current revision
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SIZE||WP:SIZE)

Comment: pending additional media coverage, but without any prejudice towards deleting the article for the time being per . Prince is a pop culture icon and has had a huge influence on a great many subsequent musicians. His sudden death at such a young age is a significant event, and I foresee it meriting its own article in the near future
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Too soon (WP:TOOEARLY)

Comment: for time being, the content might get large enough to be spun out into this article but right now it's . |Lasting effects have been mentioned but until such time those effects are known then we keep it as part of the main article until they are known (and there's enough notable events to justify such a spinout
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Too soon (WP:TOOSOON||WP:LASTING)

Comment: to Prince#Illness and death per section below Delete Not independently notable of Prince. Unlikely to be independently notable given the nature of his death (per sergecross73). A lot of news coverage at the time of his death ≠ notability. Even if it may be independently notable in the future (which I find unlikely), |Wikipedia is not a crystal ball so we should wait until it ''is'' independently notable which is not now
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: The article for Prince Nelson is over 130 kB, so splitting articles from it will reduce its size.  Merge Reactions to the death of Prince into Death of Prince per , as the former is too small for its own article, so long as Death of Prince exists.  There is no reason to delete the information in Death of Prince without retaining its history.  Additionally, assuming that title "Death of Prince" is ambiguous, we can change the title to something like "Death of Prince Rogers Nelson".  If this article cannot be kept, its history should be kept via a merge into Prince Nelson
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap (WP:CHEAP)

Comment: This was already discussed on the talk page of the main article. There's absolutely no reason to have a trumped-up hour-by-hour |NEWS reporting of Prince's death. A well-known entertainer died.  Happens all the time
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: It's oatrack, and vis-à-vis Death of David Bowie there simply isn't an array of homages from notables outside of pop culture, President Obama's statement aside
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Copyrights (WP:C)

Comment: ndash; as articles grow, they are subject to . If this material were in the Prince article, it would naturally be split off to this title. This is how we accommodate expansion of subjects
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Splitting (WP:SPLIT)

Comment: One of the worst things about having this redundant  article is that it is accumulating misinformation and is not being corrected the same way Prince (musician) is. Therefore we have two or three articles that contradict each other. Editors shouldn't have to check or fix three different articles when they are making a correction or update re: Prince (musician). That is why I believe it/they should be speedily deleted
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:CONTENTFORK)

Comment: to the section in Prince (musician), because I suppose it is a legitimate search term, and it's just possible it will become notable at some point in the future (I would argue that Death of Elvis Presley has; it's continued to be discussed). Right now, as others have pointed out, it's notable only in the context of Prince's notability and falls squarely in |NOTTHENEWS territory. Somewhere there is or was an essay with a title something like "100 newspapers", which pointed out that events often receive a flurry of news coverage, but that this doesn't make them notable. I'm sorry I failed to find it, because I think that's exactly what's at issue here: there's a lot of coverage but no indication it will be anything but transient
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)