Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of male sopranos

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List of male sopranos
This article may have been listed before, but I could not find anything in the archives, so I am listing it again. The article is so bad that I am tempted to call it patent nonsense. The few male pop music singers in this list sang with either a falsetto or a pre-puberty vocal range and were not true sopranos (and even if it was a list of pop falsetto singers, it would be incomplete without Neil Sedaka). There is no mention of castrati or the few natural male soprano opera singers (or perhaps more accurately, countertenors who sing in the soprano range, or sopranista) such as Bejun Mehta, nephew of Zubin Mehta. This list needs to be either drastically revised, or deleted. The fact that the article hasn't changed since March 2004 says that there is not much interest in improving it. gK &iquest;? 08:25, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Needs major cleanup or else Delete . If not, someone should add Klaus Nomi. Starblind 10:09, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Falsetto is not soprano. Either rewrite the article from scratch or delete.  RickK 22:37, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * No useful content, cleanup would be a rewrite, so delete. (You seem to be knowledgeable on the subject though gK, a rewrite would be much appreciated). --fvw *  23:12, 2005 Jan 7 (UTC)
 * If I made a list to match the current title, I would have to dump everything in the current list and start over, but then it would be duplicating what was already in the castrati, countertenor, and sopranista articles, so that would be a big waste of time. Changing it to a List of pop falsetto singers might be interesting, just to bring some attention to some neglected Doo-wop groups and pop singers like Frankie Valli. On the other hand, there are many more important articles that I would rather be working on, so unless someone else wants to take up the task (and then I'll help a little), my vote is still for delete. gK &iquest;? 02:41, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, another useless list. Megan1967 01:24, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article premise based on the user's evident misunderstanding of this sort of terminology. A useless list based on a dubious classification that will inevitably mislead. Wyss 03:12, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete yet another useless list (then I see that Megan1967 wrote the same thing!). --Deathphoenix 04:36, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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