Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of list songs

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was delete. Punkmorten 10:26, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of list songs

Arbitrary list of arbitrary entertainment medium containing an arbitrary theme selected arbitrarily (three items a list? four?). Also not sufficiently uncommon as to be encyclopaedic: many of Gilbert and Sullivan's patter songs (indeed many patter songs in general) contain lists. Some are lists (e.g. KoKo's "List Song" in The Mikado). Seems to be original research in that there is no cited source to support the idea that lists are an unusual subject, or indeed to suppoort the categorisation of individal songs as "list songs". An encyclopaedic article on list songs would be good, a partial list of some songs which somebody thinks are list songs is not. KoKo's List song is a list song; is the Modern major General a list song? How about the Policeman's lot? A list of very few items (felons, burglars, costers) but undoubtedly a list of examples of why the policeman's lot is not happy, which might or might not qualify. Is Ironic a list song? Absent a reliable source and definition we can't know. Just zis Guy you know? 12:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. How about setting List of list songs to music? That would surely be a list song. --kingboyk 12:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• 'Delete per nom; listcruft. What's next, lists of lists of list songs? Sandstein 13:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. What is this? CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 14:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep In order to be encyclopedic this list would have to include half of Roger Waters' catalogue! Lee M 14:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per WP:NOT. --BWD ^(talk) 15:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• I was afraid of what I would find when I heard this article was listed for deletion. I was right. This article isn't just listing, it's rapidly taking on cruftwater and needs to be torpedoed. Er, wait, that metaphor fits better at the Pirate Jokes AfD. Anyway, Delete per nom, et. al. It doesn't have a good beat and you can't dance to it. ++Lar: t/c 15:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• To the tune of "Modern Major General": Delete, remove, expunge, annul, black out, blot out, bleep and blue-pencil, cancel, clean, clean up, cross out, cut, cut out, decontaminate, destroy, drop, edit, efface, eliminate, exclude, expunge, gut, knock out, launder, omit, pass up, remove, rub out, and sterilize..  RasputinAXP  c 17:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• I tend to judge lists on their potential usefulness. In this case I would say delete. But hey, if it's kept and expanded, I'll help write "The List Song of List of List Songs". Grandmasterka 17:56, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as listcruft. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Reluctantly, I'd like to comment that this can be speedy deleted as a re-creation of something we had here last year with a title like List of songs containing lists or List of songs with lists in their lyrics, or something similar (anyone remember the exact title?) Grutness...wha? 00:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete entire catalog of Alanis Morisette except for "You Oughta Know". Haikupoet 03:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the title made me laugh --Khoikhoi 08:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - might be a good idea in another article, but JzG has convinced me it's too unwieldy and arbitrarily defined to stand alone. ProhibitOnions 12:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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.