Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about the environment (4th nomination)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  12:51, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

List of songs about the environment
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This is way too broad and imprecise. Is this about modern ecological movement? Or would each and every song about rivers, mountains, forest, seas, wind and so on fit too? And animals? Mostly unreferenced. Fails WP:LISTN. Technical note: 3rd (and last) AfD in 2007 was delete, but this was recreated in 2008 and sneaked through. Can't trace the previous ones, maybe the name was changed over time. If deleted again, I suggest salting. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:34, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  09:34, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  09:34, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:LISTPURP and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Far too broad of a categorisation to be useful as a list, and is also extremely poorly sourced with a lot of list entries not even having articles themselves. Ajf773 (talk) 09:41, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This AfD is similar to this AfD. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 10:10, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Good link from LSGH - waiting breathlessly for the 'List of songs about hearts'... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:55, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I can't believe List of songs about love was never created... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:05, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Just took me 5 minutes to check if one speicific song listed really was about the environment - it wasn't. --Richhoncho (talk) 11:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 11:54, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as stated, this is indiscriminate, with widely varying degrees of relevance, and virtually no evidence. A proper article (not a list) about the environment in song, properly cited, would be a fine thing, in contrast. But that would require (shock, horror) studying and citing reliable sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:59, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Blecch. I have little to add to the policy-based votes by everyone above. The title of this list should be "List of songs with vague environmentalist politics and songs that mention animals and songs that talk about trees a little and a few that name drop earthquakes in their lyrics plus one or two that have wind in their titles as a metaphor for feelings". ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 14:41, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the above, and burn down with fire.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:51, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete too unorganized and indiscriminate. Kerberous (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:31, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete I'll quote myself from Articles for deletion/List of songs about rain (2nd nomination) (linked above): 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. The difference between that list and this one is that in this case, the corresponding prose article already exists: Environmentalism in music (I'm guessing this is what meant). That being said, there is nothing worth merging from this list to that prose article. TompaDompa (talk) 12:02, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete indiscriminate Spudlace (talk) 23:05, 17 June 2021 (UTC)


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