Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hidden tracks


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. I'll add a merge tag or two, though. -Splash talk 21:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

List of hidden tracks
There are thousands of hidden tracks.
 * Delete. Unmaintainable list. --SuperDude 02:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - If this is kept, it will grow at a faster rate than Skynet. I can personally add a crapload on right now, and so can pretty much anyone. - 83.151.204.235 04:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Hahnchen 15:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC) login must have expired
 * Keep, Wikipedia is not paper. Kappa 06:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep,I agree that Wikipedia is not paper. Joaquin Murietta 07:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, having the tracks listed on the album's article is sufficient. Also, we must keep Wikipedia from becoming self-aware as per 83.151.204.235. -- Kjkolb 08:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a collection of trivia. Average Earthman 09:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the hidden-track craze is important to music history and should be documented...but we also have an article List of albums containing a hidden track which covers much the same territory. Ideally I'd say that article should be merged into this one, but vice versa would be okay too. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  10:20, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The craze for personalised number plates is important to the history of car ownership too, but it doesn't mean we should list every single one of them; an overview article with some notable examples would be more than enough. If some way could be found of sifting out only those hidden tracks which had been notable in themselves that might be different, but I can't see how that could be done. In any case, that would fit better in the article Andrew/Starblind mentioned above. Loganberry (Talk) 11:08, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I disagree that it's unmaintainable; true, it's an incomplete and open-ended list but it can be added to (and so improved) over time. All the same, I agree that there would seem to be a need for some criteria as to which tracks are included if there really are thousands of them.  Marcus22 11:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The more interesting ones can go in Hidden tracks. Reconsider if and when the number is so large that the size of the Hidden tracks article becomes unwieldy. What is the case for saying that someone looking for information on hidden tracks is going to type in "List of hidden tracks" rather than "hidden tracks," or that the search feature and/or Google will be any more effective in finding them if they are in a separate article? Dpbsmith (talk) 12:32, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Hidden track or Keep if the resulting article would be too unwieldy. This satisfies my main criterion for lists, which is that the list must add value in some way to an existing Wikipedia article. This is a useful supplement to Hidden track, which describes a salient and established practice in pop music. android  79  12:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per DPBSmith, or merge the most noteworthy examples into Hidden track or List of albums containing a hidden track. Uncompleteable.  Barno 15:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep First, Wikipedia is not paper. Second, any item on this list can easily be verified. Third, I would say a list like this can add value to other articles, as mentioned above. Roodog2k (talk) 21:13, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Impossible to keep up with, and also somewhat paradoxical per title name(unless we rename it to "formerly hidden tracks now found on Wikipedia") Karmafist 21:37, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge mentions of some of the more notable songs into Hidden track. we don't need them all, though. --Jacquelyn Marie 22:01, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, per 79. >:  Roby Wayne  Talk &bull;  Hist 23:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I would delete this entirely as an unmaintainable, unencyclopedic list. MCB 00:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as destination for link from Hidden track. Denni &#9775; 02:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I find Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 's reasoning persuasive. Rx StrangeLove 14:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to list of albums containing a hidden track. -Sean Curtin 00:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an encyclop&aelig;dia, not an indiscriminate collection of information. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:21, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with reasons provided by Dpbsmith. Carbonite | Talk 16:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge the two articles.  Grue  16:39, 4 October 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.