Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of a cappella songs

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Paul August &#9742; 18:09, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

List of a cappella songs
Delete this page, as it is completely impossible to even come close to maintaining. There are literally thousands of a cappella groups in the United States alone, and if this list also extends to a cappella covers, as it appears to do, and not just original works, the volume of songs listable here spikes exponentially. JDoorjam 14:47, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * keep, why shouldn't users be able to find examples of a cappella songs in wikipedia? Kappa 15:38, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * comment ANY song can be sung a capella. A listing of "famous a capella recordings" might be worthwile, but under the "a capella" article. Delete Allegrorondo 16:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable list. WP is not an indiscriminate collection of information. There are, BTW, several lists of a cappella groups &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 15:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * So why shouldn't users be able to find them by typing in "List of a cappella songs"? Kappa 16:37, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The group I was in during college had over 400 songs in its active or inactive repertoire all on its own. Conservatively, there are tens of thousands of a cappella arrangements out there.  It's a huge volume of information that simply isn't that useful, and is completely impossible to maintain. JDoorjam 16:49, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, firstly, because any song could be sung a cappella. Delete per Wahoofive and WP:NOT. -Satori 17:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:NOT per Wahoofive. Proto t c 22:26, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Theoretically massive and unmaintainable. tregoweth  22:59, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The list of songs that cannot be sung a cappella is probably a shorter and more tractable list - not that I'm suggesting that someone create that list. ManoaChild 23:14, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was trying to think of a song that cannot be sung acapella, and I can't. Sdedeo 06:58, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Any song in which vocal and non-vocal sections alternate would sound pretty strange when sung a cappella. That sometimes happens in musical theater, when action and dialog (sung) are mixed in a single song; try most musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber. In some heavy metal, the singing sections exist mostly to join the instrumental sections, try Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven. It wouldn't be impossible, but it would probably sound quite odd. ManoaChild 12:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to its proper title, List of a cappella covers. Then Delete.  (Now, a list of famous original a cappella songs--"For The Longest Time," "In the Still of the Night," "Sukiyaki"--is worth making.  But this ain't it.)  Marblespire 01:41, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. per Wahoofive. --Nandesuka 05:14, 13 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.