Talk:The Sparrows (band)

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Merger proposal[edit]

Jack London & the Sparrows, The Sparrows, The Sparrow, and John Kay & The Sparrow were all incarnations of the same group that featured a core of the same members, notably the Edmonton brothers and Nick St. Nicholas. Lars951 21:25, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I would stop short of merging them with Steppenwolf, but I see no need to have two separate articles for the various Sparrow(s) incarnations. Jonneroo (talk) 05:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I concur - the pages on the band JL/JK and the Sparrow(s) and The Sparrow should be merged. Pointless to have more than one area for what is essentially the same band albeit with line up changes such as a different lead vocalist. --Lizard King Jim LA 69 (talk) 16:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When I was searching for this article, it was Jack London and the Sparrows that I wanted. The early days, before the arrival of John Kay are a distinct period in rock history. I would recommend that the two entries remain, but be linked. The "Aftermath" should be linked to The Sparrow.

Am amazing up and coming folk band in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, at Bard College. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.246.234.89 (talk) 04:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger[edit]

I see that this was proposed several years ago, but never happened due to failure to attract enough attention to generate an actual consensus either way. However, Wikipedia's notability and sourcing standards are very different today than they were a decade ago — under current standards, there's no need to maintain two separate articles about the Jack London and non-Jack London iterations of what's otherwise fundamentally the same band. Neither article is actually reliably sourced all that well (the later non-Jack iteration is minimally sourced, while the with-Jack iteration is entirely unsourced), and the Jack London era actually doesn't really have its own standalone notability claim under WP:NMUSIC at all except as part of the overall history of the Sparrows. So these two versions of the band would be better addressed as one article that covers its whole history, rather than two separate articles split at the departure of one band member. Bearcat (talk) 18:04, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge The former consensus is more than enough. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:06, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, no need for articles about the variations of this band. PK T(alk) 16:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. Same basic band. Binksternet (talk) 14:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]