Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about masturbation

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:38, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of songs about masturbation
Way too specific list. --Conti|&#9993; 17:11, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * delete topic too specific for an encyclopedia --DDerby 17:42, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. P Ingerson 17:47, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting list. Grue 17:52, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and get rid of the "this list may never be complete, but you are welcome to add.." introduction. Hedley 17:53, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme keep. "Too specific" is not a valid reason for deletion.  Its both interesting and unusual.  Plus, if it really were too specific you wouldn't see dozens upon dozens of songs about masturbation listed.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 18:30, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting list. Dave the Red (talk) 18:54, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as covered by many songs. N-Mantalk 18:58, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meelar (talk) 19:19, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, even though I have added songs to this list in the past. I'm not sure this list serves any encyclopaedic purpose other than being trivia driven. Megan1967 19:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, per my copied-and-pasted determination that the fact that this is a common song theme makes this a notable list... also, won't work as a category, because most of the individual songs are not notable. -- 8^D gab 19:59, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)
 * Delete, useless and utterly nonencyclopedic. --Angr/comhrá 20:51, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete all three of these song lists as trivia, topic(s) not encyclopedic and inclusion of some songs not verifiable. Apparently any song that mentions masturbation or contains allusions that someone thinks refer to masturbation can get listed, without verification of the songwriter's intent.  For instance, when I was young and shallow enough to listen to Billy Joel, I thought "Captain Jack" was a drug song, an anti-drug song, rather than having any onanistic content.  Wikipedia is not a music guide or a collection of insignificant lists.  But I would have been entertained (albeit not informed) had I found these lists on a music-discussion website.  Barno 20:54, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as random trivia. We could never stop categorizing songs and creating lists based on those categories. Where are List of songs about animals, List of songs over 4:55 minutes long and List of songs listed in Wikipedia lists? &mdash; Asbestos | Talk  22:13, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with masturbation and be done with it. I, too, am sick of all these song lists. Soon, people will argue as to how obscure of a song you can list, and there'll be accusations of band promotion, and the internet itself will collapse. I would say delete, but this list is actually semi-interesting, and could be worth-while in the masturbation article. --Asriel86 23:43, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trivia. --Carnildo 23:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Neither masturbation nor songs are too over-specific topics -- their combination is neither so overspecific, nor so general as to make such a list needless. It'd be better though if the songs were listed by year -- we'd get some more interesting cultural info from that, like knowing who the first singer/band was who talked about such a subject. Aris Katsaris 01:47, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep When I think about this list, I touch myself. Klonimus 01:49, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Arbitrary scheme of clasification. Drini 01:52, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep nothing wrong with trivia. - SimonP 01:53, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as pointless subdivision of songs. Radiant_* 09:51, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Fairly interesting, so keep, but I think it's a bad idea for thousands of these lists to crop up. Fantom 10:00, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this and thousands of other song lists. Rad Racer | Talk 17:43, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Asriel. Zscout370 02:00, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. "Too specific" is not a valid criterion for article deletion. --Gene_poole 04:43, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it's a perfectly valid criterion. That said, this one looks like a keeper.  Some of the songs on this list are culturally important because of their subject metter (e.g. Pictures of Lily).  On the other hand, someone needs to check the list to make sure that it is only a list of songs about masturbation, not one which simply mentions it.  Mentioning this kind of thing is all too common a fad, but writing a song about it is something different. Chris talk back 17:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - there are far too many totally unencyclopedic lists already. Wikipedia is not a collection of trivia. Whats next? List of songs about apples and oranges? This is just silly. -- Egil 17:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep so damn bored i'm going blind...  ALKIVAR &trade; 18:14, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This list is useful. &mdash; J3ff 02:21, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I like this list! --Oarias 05:01, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Please justify beyond "too specific" Lotsofissues 13:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, just the right amount of specificness. Kappa 22:36, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I believe 'too specific' would be more along the lines of List of Songs about Masturbation in a Car or something. Comic 08:56, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Myles Long 20:11, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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