Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dem Bones

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 keep. - Mailer Diablo 00:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dem Bones

• Nothing but song lyrics. Is this song not copyrighted?? If the song is not copyrighted, whoever is the next voter here please identify so if the reason is to keep. I vote to delete if no one can change the article's text from lyrics to song info. Georgia guy 01:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• It is a well-known Negro spiritual and is in the public domain. The song is a well known one with 157,000 Google hits see [1] and a number of Google book results see [2]. Keep and cleanup. Capitalistroadster 01:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per above, and cleanup. worthawholebean _talk^contribs 01:58, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Whoa, do we not have a proper article on this song? Clean up the lyrics and move them to Wikisource, and expand the article to discuss the song itself. This might, I suppose, involve deleting this and listing it as a requested article, but I hope someone will volunteer to do the job before that becomes necessary. — Haeleth Talk 02:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• I have rewritten the article removing most of the lyrics and adding the content. Capitalistroadster 02:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Another Capitalistroadsterization to keep. ☺ Uncle G 03:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nice rewrite! If this is traditional, we should be able to put the lyrics someplace, right? Jessamyn 04:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Traditional does not necessarily mean not subject to copyright. If the lyrics are in the public domain, then, yes, there is a place to put them. Uncle G 04:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten. 23skidoo 14:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep current content. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 15:34, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I've added a few bits to it. [3] seems to think it's Public Domain, so lyrics would be good. However google seems to offer at least 3 different versions of the lyrics - none of them matching the ones I knew! (De foot bone connected to de ankle bone etc). Stevage 17:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep nice work Cap. Alf ^melmac 11:29, 10 December 2005 (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.