Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about politicians

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The result of the debate was keep. - Sikon 10:52, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

List of songs about politicians
Unmaintainable list of questionable value. It has potential to attract large numbers of songs created before elections from all over the world or propaganda songs from communist countries. These are interesting as phenomenon, not individually. Pavel Vozenilek 03:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I like the concept, it fits in with the rest of the songs lists, will be of value to anyone trying to look up a song relating to some politician that they're writing a report or presentation on, or a song that they simply liked. CanadianCaesar 04:09, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (and perhaps rename it List of notable songs about contemporary politicians to address nominator Pavel Vozenilek's concerns). 06:15, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting phenomenon. Kappa 11:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, legitimate article. Are there all that many songs written about politicians, or were there many in the Soviet bloc countries? PatGallacher 11:26, 2005 July 17 (UTC)
 * Keep Nothing wrong with the concept. Lomedae 12:34, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per above. Most lists of songs aren't encyclo but this one has a point. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 13:20, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting phenomenon and its targets deserve it. --Shaddack 15:34, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, social commentary is an important part of rock music history. Dcarrano 17:54, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Longhair | Talk 21:02, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep most lists. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 00:15, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable list. JamesBurns 07:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I've split this into categories. So, now suppose this list goes out of control (although I doubt it will):  What's stopping us from having break-out articles?  Wikipedia is not paper.  CanadianCaesar 20:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - very interesting ! I'm sorry, that this site is offline , where they have presented 50 songs praising Joseph Stalin ;-) MutterErde 07:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sure, its value is questionable, but it really isn't too bad. While I hate the "one bad article justifies another" argument, we do have much worse lists here. I do think time spent on lists like this could better be spent elsewhere, but who am I to tell people what to work on? -R. fiend 17:05, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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