Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about drinking

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 00:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

List of songs about drinking
This is absolutely pointless. If it really must exist, it should be a category. Thelb4 14:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lists of songs has lists of songs about gangs, laziness and masturbation, to name but three, so why not (given some cleanup, like removing the potential copyvio lyrics)? Tonywalton | Talk 15:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Having only the first line or two, as is currently the case for this article, would come under fair use I think. Caerwine 15:32, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * strong keep. Populous, verifiable, and useful list. Brighterorange 15:26, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and convert into a category. Pointless indeed! Peeper 16:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * comment - it can't usefully be turned into a category, because most of these songs don't have their own pages. Brighterorange 16:50, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep obviously, factual and verifiable. Trollderella 16:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - If we delete this we would have to look into deleting the other lists of songs as well. Anybody in for that long, protracted fight? By the time you even have this list deleted, there'll probably be two more lists of songs created. --Measure 16:54, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment "Ego sum abbas" from Orff's Carmina Burana (second section) isn't there, nor are ANY of Henry Purcell's drinking songs - I might be some time, Scott! User "Oates" Alf. 17:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC
 * keep please lists can be better than categories some times Yuckfoo 19:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and I'm sober right at the moment. -- WCFrancis 20:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Brightorange and Yuckfoo. You can't make a category about songs which don't have articles, but a lot of them are notable and should have an article. Hence a list is currently the best option. Besides, if people look for a list of articles, they go to the main article space with our search, so that's where you should find it, not the category name space. - Mgm|(talk) 21:04, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Reluctant keep. I don't personally believe that lists like this are encyclopedic, but we've got dozens of them so there is a precedent to keep. Fernando Rizo T/C 21:11, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable theme in the music world. CanadianCaesar 22:31, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Much better than having hundreds of near-pointless drinking-song articles in a category. —Charles O'Rourke 23:43, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable list &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 00:03, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable type of song. Lists can be annotated while categories cannot. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:16, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep In heaven there is no beer; that's why we drink it here; and when we're all gone from here, our friends will be drinking all the beer. Caerwine 15:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP some of the greatest country music songs are drinkin' songs! – Alakey2010 05:07 p.m., 03 October 2006
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