Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of multi-instrumentalists


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The result was Delete. Eluchil404 21:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

List of multi-instrumentalists

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Unmaintainable list per WP:LIST - there are many, many notable artists who play more than one instrument, and if vocals are included (as the list seems to indicate), this number just skyrockets further. Crystallina 07:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Too huge to even be a category. Speciate 07:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete As per nom   Harlowraman 10:03, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment As the creator of this page, I feel I should comment on this. I created this page to curb additions to a very short list on the main Multi-instrumentalist article. People kept coming to that article and adding whichever artist they were a fan of, whether or not they qualified as a multi-instrumentalist, and especially whether or not they were notable. Eventually, I created the List.. article, and another user chopped out the list in the main article and replaced it with a short paragraph and about ten names of musicians people have actually heard of.


 * As for it being 'unmaintanable', I have made great effort to maintain the list and keep it as tidy as possible. I recently removed all red links and all artists who listed two instruments and vocals, since vocals don't count.


 * There are many, many lists of musicians on Wikipedia, and many of them are a lot larger than this. The List of 20th century classical composers list is incredibly unwieldy, having something like 700 names, many of which are red links, and is inaccurate - one of the 'composers' included is Nigel Kennedy, who is a famous violinist and not a composer at all. This list (the multi-instrumentalists one) only has about 100 names or so, and many of them can be safely discarded.


 * I see no good reason for this list to be deleted unless all other lists of musicians are to be deleted also. --Steve Farrell 11:19, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFF; just because other similar lists exist doesn't mean they, or this one, necessarily should. Crystallina 16:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Maybe. What I'm saying is that the reasons people are giving as to why it should be deleted are flawed; this is not 'too huge' when compared to other similar lists, and it is certainly not 'unmaintainable'. If there's a Wikipedia policy that states that arguing that because there is a list of A1 there should be a list of A2 is a Bad Thing, then fine, but the argument still stands. There are thousands of lists on Wikipedia and while some have been deleted, there are a lot still out there that serve no useful purpose or are far larger than they should be and full of inaccurate additions. My vote for this article, in case you hadn't guessed, is Keep. --Steve Farrell 16:45, 4 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete since the pool of candidates for inclusion into this list is so big, I think this is a list of loosely associated items Corpx 17:31, 4 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep Because (i) the ability to play multiple instruments is certainly notable; (ii) being able to play more than one musical instrument is a verifiable and realtively unusual characteristic; (iii) the sub-group is large because the main group (i.e. musicians) is vast - that is not reason in itself to delete, and indeed, sub-groupings of a such a very large group are useful for research and classification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greatest hits (talk • contribs)
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