Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cover versions


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The result was   delete. all. TravellingCari 03:30, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

List of cover versions

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These lists are hopelessly incomplete and indiscriminate, not to mention unsourced. I can think of tons of notable cover songs without even leaving country music. Is it notable that, say, Neal McCoy covered Billy Vera's "At This Moment", even if Neal's version didn't chart? Is it notable that Reba McEntire had a cover of Lee Greenwood's "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands" but only managed a #9 with it? There're no criteria here. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 16:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete All are indescriminate, unsourceable (many), and I fail to see why an album of pure cover songs is notable. If you think about it, its almost anti-notable.  As to being a "cover song", why is THAT itself even notable?  P HARMBOY  ( TALK ) 20:13, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete List is hopeless incomplete and arbitrary in its contents (see "Yesterday" for example). List is skewed towards rock at the expense of other genres.  Wikipedia editors obsess too much over "covers" to begin with.  There are other websites that try to build databases of songs recorded by multiple artists; we shouldn't be trying to compete with them.  Wasted Time R (talk) 22:05, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Impossible to maintain a criteria for the cover versions. Indiscriminate and too broad of a list. Tavix (talk) 13:54, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


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