Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about rain (2nd nomination)


 * 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 delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:01, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

List of songs about rain
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This list was previously deleted after an AfD on 1 June 2014.

Song lyrics extensively use Simile, Metaphor, Allegory, Alliteration (sometimes words are added just because they sound nice), and every other literary and poetic device known. Sometimes a song’s meaning could be as plain as day, sometimes it is so obscure that it is possible not even the songwriter understood what the meaning is!

This list (as was the previously deleted list) ignores all that and just lists songs with the word ‘rain’ in it. I can see a few that have are as much about rain as my big toe. Therefore WP:SHAREDNAME, WP:TRIVIA, WP:NOT all apply and probably half-a-dozen other guidelines. Richhoncho (talk) 11:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - I have little to add to the nominator's well-reasoned rationale. Unless this article's title was changed to "List of songs that are not actually about rain but simply have rain in their titles and use rain as a metaphor for sadness or melancholy which poets have been doing for thousands of years" it makes no sense on its own terms or as a Wikipedia article that teaches the reader anything. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:28, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and above. There's really no need for lists for songs "about" every single topic ever. AdoTang (talk) 14:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Makes about as much sense as List of songs about love and List of songs about people. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:52, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It looks like we're in for a bout of frozen rain. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:13, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 05:03, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 08:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. ResPM  (T&#x1F508; &#x1F3B5;C) 12:21, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Baseless trivia.  Kncny11  (shoot) 00:26, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete As the close of the original AfD said, the list is unmanageable in its ability to appropriately discern between songs truly about rain, songs with rain in the title, songs with rain as a simile, and on top of that songs about storms of the rain variety but don't include the word rain predominantly. Therefore, as a wholly undefinable and unmanageable list, it cannot meet WP:LISTN. This simply doesn't work as a list article; I don't see any way we could construct proper WP:LISTCRITERIA that would allow us to make a list that is even remotely comprehensible and possible to maintain. Maybe it would be possible to create a prose article about the use of rain metaphors in music—provided that sources discussing that are found—but that would be a completely different article. There's nothing here that would be useful for that hypothetical article, so there's no point in trying to repurpose the existing one. Better to delete this one and create the other one from scratch (if it can be written at all, that is). TompaDompa (talk) 23:32, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too broad of a list criteria. WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Ajf773 (talk) 10:18, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too indiscriminate, trivial. Interested editors may want to stop by Articles for deletion/List of songs about the environment (4th nomination). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:22, 11 June 2021 (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.