Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of band names that rhyme


 * 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. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-04 02:44Z 

List of band names that rhyme

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 * Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate information. This article doesn't seem to meet the guidelines in WP:LIST and seems arbitrary in subject. In short: listcruft. Crystallina 06:53, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 21:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Random list of an unencyclopaedic nature. Jules1975 09:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete a great example of list of X with unassociated unencyclopedic value Y. MLA 09:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete The list was created just for the sake of having such a list. The list is of interest to a very limited number of people. The underlying concept is non-notable. The list is unencyclopaedic. The list is a violation of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. In other words... it's listcruft. Suriel1981 11:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. A list made of coincidences is not encyclopaedic. Sam Blacketer 11:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete Al-Bargit 12:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC) Good for a humour page, not for encyclopaedia
 * Delete rhymes with defeat. JuJube 13:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep It certainly doesn't fall under the "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information" mentioned above. It is no different than List of band names with date references or List of songs whose title includes a phone number Tyoda 14:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It's also no different from and .  Please discuss this article, and reasons for keeping and deleting it based upon our Policies and guidelines.  The existence of other articles is irrelevant when it comes to whether this article conforms to our policies and guidelines. Uncle G 00:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Absolutely no point in this that I can see at all, from an encyclopaedic standpoint. 23skidoo 14:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - indiscriminate list that serves no purpose here. Arkyan 16:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to violate WP:NOT as a list of loosely associated topics. (WP:NOT does not apply, however. That's the wrong section of policy to cite here.) Dugwiki 17:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. List of band names that do not rhyme.  dcandeto 18:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No one has made a convincing argument how this differs from List of band names with date references or List of songs whose title includes a phone number. Tyoda 19:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Which simply means that maybe the ones you mentioned should also be discussed at afd too. Dugwiki 19:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Tyoda, this is known as the WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS form of argument. You might want to follow that link to see why few users give much credit to it, though of course your view is still worth considering when the debate is closed. Sam Blacketer 22:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * See Articles for deletion/List of songs whose title includes a phone number and Articles for deletion/List of songs whose title includes a phone number (second nomination). Uncle G 00:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * To reply to Uncle G above, "List of songs whose title includes a phone number" received no consensus to delete, and it appears that "List of songs whose title includes a phone number" probably should have received the same result but was labeled "keep". Either way, neither of those afd presents compelling evidence that this article should be kept. Dugwiki 16:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. This list follows all three of the criteria on WP:LIST:
 * 1. Information: While this isn't a structured list, it could be useful for helping English language learners or young people understand the concept of "rhyme".
 * 2. Navigation: If a Wikipedian is trying to find the name of a band, and the only thing they can remember is that it rhymes, this could be an extremely useful list.
 * 3. Development: Red links on this page could help alert editors to articles that need to be added to Wikipedia.

I realize that some of these justifications are highly conditional and might not occur with great regularity. But that's the whole point of Wikipedia: It's VAST! There's room for stuff like this, to fill in the gaps where a conventional encyclopedia might not be able to help. So I vote "keep". Applejuicefool 16:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No offense, but I think those points are stretching things a bit. I sincerely doubt anybody would use this article to "learn about the concept of rhyming" or "find missing band articles" or "remember that a band name rhymes but not the name and use this list to find the band".  I mean, maybe I'm overly skeptical, but that's just my opinion. Dugwiki 17:07, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree (as I mentioned in my original post) that these things might not happen often. But if they happen ONCE, then this list has served a useful purpose. I found nothing under WP:LIST or WP:NOT that says a page needs to be likely to attract a high (or any) amount of traffic.  This list is potentially useful to a Wikipedian in the right situation, therefore I vote "keep". Applejuicefool 17:54, 28 February 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.