Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cover versions of Kate Bush songs


 * 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 no consensus; default to keep. Petros471 20:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

List of cover versions of Kate Bush songs
I'm hereby submitting for inclusion only a handful of the populace of Category:Dynamic lists of songs. If you wanted to nuke this whole category, I wouldn't shed a tear, but these are some of the worst offenders. Without fail, every list is original research and an indiscriminate collection of information. These are just the most indiscriminate of such lists. I'm nominating them separately so you all can judge for yourselves. Starry Eyes  22:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominator. Starry  Eyes  22:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom ST47 22:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Many articles on musical artists contain lists of cover versions, and there's nothing inherently OR about such lists.  This one just happens to be long enough to spill over into its own article. More information than Wikipedia absolutely needs on the subject, to be sure, but WP:NOT paper.  &mdash;Cel ithemis  23:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, random. Gazpacho 23:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Raggaga 23:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 *  Keep  Strong Keep As a Kate Bush fan this is information I might be interested in looking up. Normally such a list would just be in her article, but this is long enough to need its own page. And it's not really OR, just collation. Dybryd 02:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The numbers are for delete, but dear admin: notable only to those with an interest in the subject is still notable. Dybryd 22:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This one serves a purpose as a valid content fork from Kate Bush. 205.157.110.11 08:33, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: Anonymous user (obviously), though with quite a few contributions. It seems to be a shared IP, however. Starry  Eyes  15:23, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * yes, but I am by far the best looking of the bunch. 205.157.110.11 23:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete OREdison 14:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep A finite list with rigid criteria, far from indiscriminate. This list makes no original research assertions. Legitimate fork from Kate Bush article since it shows the wide influence of her music. I don't know much about her myself, and was surprised to discover this. --SevereTireDamage 14:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't think there is anything wrong with a list like this. It's usefual and certainly would be a topic people will search for or be interested in finding out about. Evil Eye 17:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Exactly the sort of thing someone might want to research. Mallanox 22:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, or merge, as per SevereTireDamage. — freak([ talk]) 12:11, Aug. 22, 2006 (UTC)
 *  Week Keep (full disclosure - Kate Bush would join Glenn Gould in having a couple of entries on my desert island discs). I haven't looked closely at various songwriter/band articles, but I assume a section within an article of songs covered by others wouldn't be challenged as WP:OR, so I'm not sure a fuller list is inherently a problem - certainly requiring sourcing footnotes on each song would seem onerous, and I assume not common practice?  If there is a consensus that lists of covered songs in general are unencyclopedic then this one can be tossed, but if the issue is the notability of the songwriter I'd have to demur. - David Oberst 07:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Further Comment - Taking a look at Category:Dynamic lists of songs, most of the members are somewhat arbitrary subjects such as List of songs about disease or List of songs that have reprises, leading to User:StarryEyes' valid grumble.  List of cover versions of Kate Bush songs seems an exception in dealing with a specific artist, and is perhaps mis-categorized (perhaps Category:Lists of songs by authors or performers instead)?  There seems to be things like List of artists who have covered songs by The Smiths, List of artists who have covered ABBA songs, List of Genesis covers, etc., while on the other hand List of Pearl Jam songs covered by others seems to have been merged and redirected to Pearl Jam.  I've upgraded to a stronger Keep - artist-specific lists like this should probably be rounded up, considered as a group, and some sort of consensus found to either delete them or establish some sort of notability guidelines. - David Oberst 00:30, 27 August 2006 (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.