Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Halloween songs


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The result was delete. List is too broadly defined, cruftprone and likely unmaintainable. Daniel Case 04:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

List of Halloween songs

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WP:NOT of loosely associated topics, WP:NOT, and largely Original Research. Indiscriminate list of songs that have no connection, other than having titles that might sound a bit "spooky". Or song titles that have the word "moon" in them, or the word "night"... etc. Hardly any of the songs are Halloween-related either. Masaruemoto 02:54, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete By far the majority of the songs are not related to Halloween, most of them don't even deal with the supernatural/that sort of thing. I'd support the existence of the page if it were in some way accurate, but as of now it's worthless. Calgary 03:04, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Oysterguitarst 03:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Maxamegalon2000 05:50, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Calgary. For some of these songs, I don't even know what the contributors were thinking. "Whip It" by Devo? "Mama" by Genesis? "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" by Meat Loaf? Is October 31 a summer night? --Metropolitan90 06:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" Holloween connection is that it's on Bat out of Hell :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 23:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Reluctant delete - I was so hoping that this would be an actual list of Halloween songs instead of an OR-ridden list of songs "directly or indirectly related" to it. Damn. Otto4711 12:25, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Another Reluctant delete... Like Otto, I had high hopes before reviewing the list, and it's clear that any song with witch, goblin, monster, etc. finds its way on here. Other than the Monster Mash and a song by The Shaggs, I don't recall any song actually about Halloween.  I hope that people who are planning a Halloween party will download this one, and for that reason, I'm sorry that Masarue nominated this one in July, instead of waiting until September or October.  On the other hand, putting it then might have invited a lot of "Keep" votes by people swept up in the spirit of the season.  I agree with Mas, that this doesn't really belong in Wikipedia.  Mandsford 15:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, but add references. A good list of Halloween songs, i.e. songs associated with a major holiday with many years of tradition is unbelievably valid for an encyclopedia, but we should require references.  So, add reference tags, but too important to delete. --164.107.222.23 17:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * BOOt this article (delete). For most of these, the association with Holloween is tenuous at best.  The ones that really make sense could be added to Category:Halloween songs, but that's about it.  -- RoySmith (talk) 19:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per the afd nom.--JForget 22:40, 4 July 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.