Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs associated with British towns and villages


 * 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. -  Daniel.Bryant  09:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

List of songs associated with British towns and villages

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This appears to be listcruft, and is very likely original research, and is also unverifiable too. It doesn't give any reason why the songs are associated with the towns, and appears to be unsubstantiated. sunstar nettalk 23:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 07:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 07:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Simply south 23:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I could see a list containing songs such as Molly Malone (Dublin), or Dirty Old Town (Salford), where there is a very obvious link being of interest, but this?.....Jcuk 23:37, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as unreferenced original research The article makes no attempt to verify its information is based on objective published material. Dugwiki 23:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as something close to nonsensical disguised as original research. This seems to be a collection of songs that people like in certain places, which is one of the more bizarre articles I've seen recently. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - the sentence "It is not known why these are associated as such, but it remains in their popular culture" practically guarantees the article's deletion. -- Black Falcon 00:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. We saw something similar to this at Articles for deletion/List of songs associated with towns in the United Kingdom which was deleted near-unanimously. Most, and possibly all, of the songs listed do not mention the cities indicated nor are they necessarily by artists from those cities; some of the performers are not even from the U.K. This article is either unverifiable original research, a hoax, or nonsense. But if you hear songs by Eminem and think of Manchester or Leeds rather than Detroit, feel free to try to convince us otherwise. --Metropolitan90 01:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Administrators should probably feel free to close this speedily under WP:SNOW, as the article creator has been blocked indefinitely for trolling by submitting A Tale of Two Cities for deletion. --Metropolitan90 01:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Just my opinion, but nothing should ever be speedily closed using WP:SNOW. WP:SNOW isn't a policy or guideline - it's an essay which doesn't even appear to necessarilly have clear consensus.  Just recently there was an afd which started out with people saying they wanted to use WP:SNOW to close the article, then after a couple of changes to the article comments started coming in to use WP:SNOW to keep the article.  The essay is way too subjective to be useful as a means for determining the outcome of deletion discussions (my two cents). Dugwiki 17:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. We're not a collection of random lists, the article has inadequate references, and it appears to be at least in part OR. I'd cite "sackload of irritating wankery" as a deletion reason as well, but it's not one of our criteria. WMMartin 15:38, 16 February 2007 (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.