Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of popular music acts that incorporate the accordion


 * 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. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 17:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

List of popular music acts that incorporate the accordion

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Prodded with reasoning "Unsourced trivia. This article says nothing about the relevance of the accordion. Compare to the long-deleted List of songs featuring vibraslap etc." Back when the vibraslap article was deleted, we had several other "List of songs featuring X" articles that were deleted because they all failed WP:V and WP:SALAT — it's just a willy nilly association with no relevance. Accordions are so commonplace that such a list would be miles long. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Query. Surely the fact that this is a list of groups and not of songs makes a difference? Could you comment on that specifically? –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 21:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 22:58, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 22:58, 22 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep – This article is a logical offshoot from the Accordion article, which links to this article in its "Use in popular music" section. The accordion article is extensive; therefore this article acts to supplement the main article. Northamerica1000 (talk) 23:33, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Most of the entries are hardly verifiable outside the album's liner notes or inherent OR (I hear an accordion in such and such song). Tell me how any particular example is verifiable besides using your ears. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:33, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment – Here's an example of verification, for the "Yuri Lemeshev" entry in the article, a reference I added:
 * "Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punk Hero", NPR Music, August 15, 2007, retrieved 2010-01-26. Quote: "Yuri Lemeshev, our 53-year-old accordion player, is from Sakhalin in Russia."
 * — Northamerica1000 (talk) 03:22, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment – And another:
 * Danny Federici Quote: "Federici played accordion on the wistful “4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” from Springsteen’s second album, and his organ solo was a highlight of Springsteen’s first top 10 hit, “Hungry Heart.”"
 * — Northamerica1000 (talk) 03:38, 26 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep If the list would be very long (but finite--there are only a finite number of notable songs in Wikipedia after all, most of which do not include an accordion), this shows the importance and notability  of the subject. List of songs featuring vibraslap was deleted only by Prod, and therefore could be restored on request--even if it were an AfD, a 2007 deletion is no precedent. We deleted a lot of good article   then that we would not delete today (in the other direction, we seem to have back then been much more tolerant of promotionalism and less vigilant about copyvio--should we use those as precedents also?)  DGG ( talk ) 01:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. IMO, this is too trivial, failing WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Some of the artists listed used the accordion only once or just a few times, making the inclusion criteria far too inclusive. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 18:59, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep As a logical offshoot. I don't believe it is so trivial as to warrant deletion. Pol430  talk to me 16:48, 1 January 2012 (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.