Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of one-hit wonders in classical music


 * 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 of the debate was delete.  Sango  123   18:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

List of one-hit wonders in classical music
Please oh please can we delete this? I prodded a bit ago, and it was de-prodded. As the lead itself states, this article is completely subjective, has no good definition of what it really means (it seems to mean that "the man on the street" would only know one piece by these people), and is completely unsourced (WP:V). It was put up for deletion under slightly different title here, the end result of which was to redirect to One hit wonder. I hate to say it, but this article is one of the reasons experts make fun of us. It has clearly not gotten better with the time it's been given. Delete for the love of Pete. Mak (talk)  16:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this monument to public ignorance. AlexTiefling 16:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. One man's one-hit wonder is another man's loved composer. It lists Offenbach, for crying out loud! I'm quite fond of a number of Offenbach pieces. You can't even use sales or chart positions to determine what is or isn't a "hit". Utterly subjective. ~ Matticus78 16:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Hahnch e  n 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. And delete the section on classical music in one hit wonders, which I might do myself. Ridiculous to extend a concept that only has relevance to popular music. hateless 16:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. From the article: "Classifying a one-hit-wonder in classical music is subjective". That really says it all. PJM 16:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article encapsultates everything that's bad about Wikipedia. BoojiBoy 20:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with everything above. Grover cleveland 20:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:V and WP:NOR. --Coredesat talk 21:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunate delete If there are surveys or something of the like put out by the BBC, ABC or the like so that interested parties could score them, perhaps (then it would be more analogous to one hit wonder), but its a bit hard to measure this as it is classical music, for crying out loud. As it stands, pure POV (though I largely agree, especially about poor Pachelbel!) SM247 My Talk  23:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, aside from the absence of good, verifiable data classical music doesn't fall into many of the same categories that, say, pop music does and this is one of those categories. This one's gotta go. Mr Snrub 16:40, 30 June 2006 (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.