Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of instrumental number ones on the UK Singles Chart


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The result was   keep.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 05:09, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

List of instrumental number ones on the UK Singles Chart

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What's the significance of instrumentals reaching number one? The first paragraph merely discusses the singles chart itself, the second paragraph is pure trivia. The sources for the tracks themselves just point out that they happened to reach number one and that they just happen to be instrumentals. It is just as much a trivial intersection that a list of number-one novelty songs or number-one songs from films would be. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 03:20, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * I don't think this is a trivial intersection. Seems a valid list to me, the first paragraph could perhaps do with trimming a bit though. pablo 10:17, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per pablo. seems valid but could use some more clean-up and verification. Dzlife (talk) 14:11, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The list is not trivial; it is notable and well-focussed, as the sources demonstrate. Instrumentals are a distinctive type of music and the list is helpful in navigating to articles about notable examples.  It perhaps needs expanding and making more global so that other instrumental hits like Green Onions are included. Warden (talk) 14:59, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ... or Stranger on the Shore which, according to its article, was "the UK's biggest-selling single of 1962, the biggest-selling instrumental single of all time and the first British recording to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100". Bizarrely, in the particular chart relied on by this article it never reached number 1. But these are editorial matters. The article sets terms of reference for itself which are notable, and it references its content appropriately It should be allowed to be developed in future. Keep Thincat (talk) 22:26, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep. I'm normally wary of articles of the format of List of Xs meeting conditions A, B and C and this slightly strays into the territory of original research, but I wouldn't call instrumental number ones a trivial intersection. I'd be more sceptical about a list of novelty number ones because it's less clear-cut what would count as a novelty song, but there's little room for doubt over what counts as an instrumental single. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:46, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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