Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music inspired by novels


 * 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 was   no consensus. and rename to List of music inspired by literature Black Kite 11:18, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

List of music inspired by novels

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This small list has only four links to sections of articles covering the way some authors' works have inspired musical works. The title would suggest the article lists music inspired by authors, but it actually list authors who inspired music. It would be at best a disambiguation page. Unless several more links are added, this list won't prove useful. Victão Lopes I hear you... 21:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and perhaps create a category: "music derived from written works". inspired is a totally unacceptable word to use in a WP article name or category. of course, a musician can say they were inspired, and we can source and add comments like that to articles on significant composers. perhaps a category "works derived from works in other media"Mercurywoodrose (talk) 23:42, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. So many articles on Wikipedia are full of trivia sections showing how this or that song was "inspired" by a book, movie, etc. To lump them all together in one list seems like a never-ending task, and could also be a subjective one. Yoninah (talk) 21:08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The basis for nomination is mistaken/misleading. The links in the list are to lists of music. 'Inspired' totally fails to upset me. Re "never-ending task": WP:DEMOLISH. Subjective is a matter for WP:BOLD or the talk page. Anarchangel (talk) 15:13, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The title should be changed to Lists of works inspired by literature--Byron, for example, wrote no novels, and the plural is needed--it's a list of pages and sections, not of individual works of music. To clarify, I made the change even during the AfD, because it describes the page better and the change at least shouldn't be controversial.  So many articles contain this information, because it is significant. And the links here are two of them to pages where it is significant enough for an individual page, and 2 to long sections--one of which, Byron, is undoubtedly enough for a full page, as these are multiple major works. Full pages could certainly written also for such authors as  Goethe and Schiller, who inspired most of best-known    songs in classical music (and Shakespeare and Scott, who inspired not just notable songs but some of the most famous operas in the world).  The argument that this is too much to do is irrelevant, and would be irrelevant even if this were a list of individual works--NOT PAPER, and we have many editors.   DGG ( talk ) 22:19, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Mercurywoodrose. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 22:27, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep name change did the trick for me. It seems to be links to existing articles.--Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 03:31, 27 September 2009 (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.