Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Malayalam songs recorded by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam


 * 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 was delete. Joyous! | Talk 05:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

List of Malayalam songs recorded by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

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Fails WP:NLIST. Note that WP:NOTDATABASE applies. Few, if any, tracks pass WP:NMUSIC. 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 23:11, 23 January 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:43, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Albums and songs, Lists,  and India.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:33, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NLIST. Songs have been copied from sites similar to discogs and no songs have standalone notabilty. Complete non-notable. Fails WP:SIGCOV, WP:V.   scope_creep Talk  01:10, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - the listing is nowhere an "indiscriminate collection of information". Could only be relevant if WP decided that no list of recorded songs could have a place here. Similar articles do exist with even poorer sourcing. Otherwise it just needs expansion and proper sourcing, not deletion. Most of the films already have enough references and the songs may be traced upon searching on the web. Abbasulu (talk) 11:25, 25 January 2023 (UTC) ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:22, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - since this is an extension of List of songs recorded by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, they should have been grouped into one single AfD. The rationale for keeping them though remains the same. WP:NOTDATABASE does not apply here. It is not a database, it is a list, a legitimate one, which needs sourcing, just like every list of recorded songs by other singers. I suggest that we start a project of sourcing them all instead of deleting a page which so much time and effort have been put into. Other than that, the notability of the songs as suggested by the nominator isn't as important (in lists of works, no requirement exists for all the works to be notable - the subject is more notable, as per WP:NLIST: "the individual items in the list do not need to be independently notable") - fact is, by the way the majority of films are notable, so actually NFILM might be more suitable than NMUSIC. If by then no sources are found then I believe the right course of action would be redirecting it to the main list. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  11:18, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete or draft. Fails WP:NLIST and WP:VERIFY. Onel 5969  TT me 13:29, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. Fails WP:NLIST per nom. Part of the list can be covered there. SBKSPP (talk) 01:21, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. That's the only sensible suggestion. If I were interested in Malayalam songs recorded by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam the obvious place to look would be the article on S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. What on earth in the value of having a separate article? The same applies to all of the articles with similar names.  Athel cb (talk) 09:23, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 18:48, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per Nom. Unless someone performs a HEY there is far too much-unsourced content to redirect. -- Otr500 (talk) 15:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - This singer is a legend. He has sung more than 120 songs in Malayalam which is more than the entire career of Maluma or Bad Bunny. I see no reason to delete this legend's discography. 	Valiaveetil (talk) 06:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC) (Sock strike — DaxServer (t · m · c) 18:26, 5 February 2023 (UTC))
 * NLIST: There are at least 2 very good reasons, #1)- Notability guidelines also apply to the creation of stand-alone lists and tables, #2)- a list topic is considered notable if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list. A third reason is verifiability|. Not wanting to take anything away from anyone, great or not, all someone has to do is supply a source that fulfills the criteria. That way there is proof there is "the legend", and won't feel as though the great country artist Loretta Lynn sang Legend In My Mind. -- Otr500 (talk) 05:19, 5 February 2023 (UTC)  _
 * Delete Grouping lacks supporting references to meet WP:NLIST. MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:38, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete The introductory paragraph duplicates material already in S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. The only source for the remainder is an IMDb-like group blog, malayalachalachithram.com, which is not a reliable source and doesn't demonstrate that Malayalam songs by SPB have been discussed as a group. Fails WP:V and WP:NLIST. --Worldbruce (talk) 23:55, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


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