Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songwriters

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 17:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of songwriters

List of songwriters (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) - (View log)

This list is so broad as to be completely unworkable and unmaintainable. If we're just looking for a list of songwriters with wikipedia articles, categories are better for that. adavidw 09:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Agree, way too broad a topic for a list and unmaintainable. 23skidoo 12:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information. Also, what constitutes a song in this case? Orderinchaos78 14:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment the definition at the top actually does make this list maintainable. The inclusion of most of the Australian, English and U.S. writers are beyond the scope of list. Billy Bragg performs rarely, if ever!? The euro stuff seems sensible enough. As is pointed out above, they must have pages to be categorised. Some songwriters might deserve humble inclusion in a list and perhaps a comment, but not a page. Widely notable singer/songwriters are much more numerous, despite being prevalent only in recent history. A possible keep. Fred 14:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Delete the definition at the top of the page makes the scope passable. However, the list obviously has become unmaintainable and the list entries provide little added value over a category.-- danntm ^T _C 15:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak delete per above. I found a missing entry in the list after only a few minutes scanning - I'm sure this is unmaintainable. -- Bpmullins | Talk 17:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and categorify with Category:Songwriters. I know that for example in Hong Kong it is quite common to have songwriters who only professionally write songs and do not sing, but I agree that even after renaming to List of songwriters who do not sing, it would still be unmaintainable. The scope described at the top of the page has been there since 2004, and no apparent efforts have been made to make it happen. Fred: Why would songwriters deserve a mention if they are not notable enough to have their own articles? Pomte 18:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete impossible, biased list. MURGH ^disc. 02:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete far to broad and unmaintainable. Article could be salvaged with a better defined scope, however. Resolute 04:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Much, MUCH easier if we keep them into a category. Category-fy (what's the correct word?) - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 04:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom --Lee Vonce 16:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 13:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, successful is a POV term and does not define the scope at all. Nuttah68 10:16, 27 January 2007 (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.