Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs named after people


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:14, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

List of songs named after people

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Listified version of a deleted category (see Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 9). Unfortunately, there is no real encyclopedic value to this collection as a list, either. The issue is that songs named after people are extraordinarily common (as you can see by the sheer size of the list) and cover a wide range of situations: songs about some random person the singer knows like "Angie", tributes to public figures like "Andy Warhol", offhand references to cultural figures like "Be My Yoko Ono", protest songs like "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People", or propaganda like "Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Song"— a smorgasbord of different sorts of songs that it's unlikely for a person to want to navigate between. In short, this is nothing more than an WP:INDISCRIMINATE collection of information. If this is deemed noteworthy, then the content should at least be split up by topic. — Kawnhr (talk) 06:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 06:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 06:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — Kawnhr (talk) 06:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom as indiscriminate as heck, lest we be inundated with List of songs named after places, List of songs named after cars, etc. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:40, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * You mean like List of songs about cities and similar categories? --Richhoncho (talk) 08:47, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That's a list of songs by subject ("songs about..."), which is a substantive and appropriate way to index cultural works. postdlf (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Hekerui (talk) 07:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. While somebody might want to find songs about Andy Warhol (which are easily found with the search facilities already in place) why would that same person want to see a list that includes a plea to 'Be My Yoko Ono?' --Richhoncho (talk) 08:43, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:TRIVIA. ASTIG😎  (ICE T • ICE CUBE) 09:08, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivial and superficial way to index songs; a song's name is not determinative of what it is actually about and so this is not a list of songs by subject (even if it were, "songs about people" would still be too broad and vague). In addition to the nom's examples above of how little this shared fact of "named after people" is evidence of anything in common about these songs, there are plenty of songs about people that aren't named after them and other songs named after people that aren't about them. postdlf (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom as an indiscriminate list of things. --Lockley (talk) 06:48, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Rlendog (talk) 13:08, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per the above. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:26, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:TRIVIAShrikanthv (talk) 11:52, 17 July 2020 (UTC)


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