Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pop Singers


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The result was Delete --Stephen 05:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

List of Pop Singers

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Unmanageable as a list. The corresponding categories for American, Canadian and English pop singers alone contain over a thousand names. So we're looking at something like 2000 names on the list and growing. Sublists by era, by country, by subgenre or any combination of the above might be doable and worthy of articles. To top it off, this list is actually sorted by first name which seems pretty absurd. Pichpich (talk) 00:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This is going to be a very unmanageable list, even if someone actually does re-alphabetize it by surname. (Why is that such a hard concept anyway?) "Pop" is such an overused term for a musical genre anyway -- are 95% of the country music singers out there "pop" just because 95% of country music crosses over to the Hot 100? Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 01:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Unmanageable and far too broad in its scope. PC78 (talk) 01:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with that stupid List of stand-up comedians and then delete both of them. The contrast between the discussions on these two lists is surprising; the consensus for the comedians list so far is a keep, even though it's even less manageable than this one.  I like how Marvin Gaye is listed as "currently inactive".  Seems that's been true since 1984, and it's unlikely that he'll be making a comeback in this world.  Mandsford (talk) 02:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. But Mandsford's idea looks equally attractive haha.   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 02:32, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Pichpich. The genre of "pop" is not sufficiently defined to make this list worth keeping. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Could pop singers be ones who endorse soft drinks? Oh wait, that list would still be 50 miles long... Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 04:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Unmaintainable as a list, too large to be useful. If pop singers need to be collected, smaller more focussed lists or categories would be better; these probably already exist. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 21:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Note that if they do, I would have no problem with an article like Lists of pop singers listing these focused lists. Pichpich (talk) 22:12, 23 February 2008 (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.