Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of eponymous albums (songwise)


 * 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 of the debate was no consensus to delete. --Angr (t·c) 20:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

List of eponymous albums (songwise)
nn listcruft. WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information. When is this madness going to end? Delete Zunaid 09:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Many editors have been working on this for quite some time. They as well as others find it useful for research. Furthermore, why was there no preliminary discussion on talk page from nom prior to AfD? -- JJay 09:33, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per JJay. Flyboy Will 09:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Delete cos its listcruft, weak per JJay. I'm curious as to the nature of the research for which this article would be useful, though. --Squiddy 10:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * "Listcruft" is not a reason for deletion. One man's crap is another's life. Please be more specific as to why you don't think this is useful.
 * Comment "Listcruft" is a neat way to summarise "an indiscriminate collection of information", in the same way you see the terms gamecruft, moviecruft and any other cruft being used. In this regard it is a reason for deletion. p.s. I'm not arguing from a standpoint of usefulness. Perhaps someone somewhere out there would find the potentially useful, I don't know. What I am saying is that it isn't encyclopedic. Zunaid 11:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I agree with Zunaid. I also think that a useful guideline for lists is that there should be at least a reasonable chance that they will be largely complete at some point. With this list, there is no chance whatever of that happening. That's why the term 'indiscriminate' is applicable in this case. --Squiddy 11:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Songs that lead to the naming of another entity (see eponym) are notable, so I don't see why they shouldn't be listed. Categorization would kill the possibility to mention what they named. - Mgm|(talk) 11:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of songs with the same name as song artists and consider rename to Eponymous music. No need for 2 lists with repetitive, overlapping information when one would do. Zordrac  (talk) Wishy Washy  Darwikinian Eventualist 15:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.Gateman1997 17:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (entrywise). An absolutely staggering number of albums have an eponymous title track. There's no chance this list will ever be complete. Regina0613 18:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Modify to maintain manageability. I'd suggest limiting criteria to eponymous albums that have reached a position in an album chart in a definitive recording trade magazine, like Billboard, Cashbox (now defunct) or New Musical Express. In the same vein, I'd recommend a similar Eponymous hit singles as this would be very manageable (if memory serves me correctly, there are only about a dozen fitting this category from Billboard's Hot 100 chart and a relative handful from NME). In both cases, the name of the act and the name of the recording must be identical. B.Wind 18:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * keep as above Jcuk 21:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. per Regina (also, I thought that by eponymous there would be some connection between the artists' names and their songs. Needs a retitle if we decide to keep this and let it expand to suck up all available memory on the system.... Carlossuarez46 22:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No no no. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This is also unmaintainable and guaranteed to never get anywhere near completion. Stifle 01:36, 26 December 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.