Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs performed on The X Factor (UK TV series)


 * 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. --Core desat  06:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

List of songs performed on The X Factor (UK TV series)

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This article seems to violate WP:NOT (directory). If you collect all songs from a movie/TV show in a list, release it as an album, it's usually called a soundtrack, in which case it may be notable - but this is not a soundtrack, an no-one nowhere has written about this list. This article has a short introduction, then is just an alphabetical list. It serves no taxonomical or navigational purpose either from what I can tell. Delete as pretty indiscriminate, and unworthy of inclusion in the Wikipedia. Ohconfucius 08:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete more info that would be best placed on someones own fansite. It serves no encyclopedic function --PrincessBrat 10:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as directory per WP:NOT and nom. Otto4711 15:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I thought it should be deleted when I first discovered it but then I grew to like it, but it's just as easy to look up the individual series articles for the show to find out what songs were sung. &mdash; AnemoneProjectors  ( talk ) 19:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - this doesn't meet NOT#Directory. Does meet WP:LIST - navigation and information.  I don't see how it doesn't meet navigation, as mentioned above. - Peregrine Fisher 11:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This absolutely fails NOT#DIR. It is a loose association of items which have nothing in common other than that they are songs performed on a particular TV show. The individual items did not gain fame or notability by virtue of the association so they don't pass the "Nixon's enemies list" proviso. Finally, WP:LIST is a guideline, not a free pass for every list article. If an article fails an actual policy or is otherwise unacceptable, pointing to its compliance with WP:LIST does not save it. Otto4711 17:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The association is not loose, each one is a song performed on X Factor. That's tight enough. - Peregrine Fisher 18:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, no. The performance of a song on a TV show, when the songs share no other factor in common, is not enough of a commonality. The songs vary by genre, composer, lyricist, style, vocal range, tempo, key, etc. It is absurd to say that just because some TV person decided to sing a particular song on the air that the songs as a group become notable together. Otto4711 18:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * What you find absurd, I find extremely reasonable. This is where we disagree. - Peregrine Fisher 19:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is quite true that we disagree, because I tend to believe that items on an encyclopedic list should have something in common beyond coincidence. Otto4711 20:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * These songs were not chosen accidentally. - Peregrine Fisher 20:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I did not say "accidentally." And the fact remains that songs do not become notable as a set by way of being performed on the same TV show. Otto4711 00:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - per nom. Driller thriller 03:19, 10 March 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.