Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs whose title includes geographical names


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. &mdash; J I P | Talk 08:05, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

List of songs whose title includes geographical names
According to the article size, this list renders unmaintainable.
 * Delete. Subtrivial listcruft. --SuperDude 06:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Xoloz 08:28, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   10:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but subdivide into different articles. Hundreds of edits by different users, seems a shame to waste all that effort. The talk page is 95k for instance Astrokey44 10:18, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unecyclopedic. &mdash; mark &#9998; 10:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unecyclopedic. Ben D. 10:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another unencyclopaedic list. --Daveb 13:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep as per Astrokey44. Roodog2k (talk) 14:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep. Pretty useless and very hard to maintain but it seems some people find this interesting enough to contribute to (and, presumably, read) so it seems a shame to throw the work away. It's unencyclopedic in the traditional sense but is it unwikipedic? We seem to have a lot of listcruft and I'm not sure where to draw the line on that. The high amount of activity this page has got seems to be an indication that there is some interest in the topic. - Haukurth 14:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The number of contributed edits suggests this list is being maintained. Subdivision is needed, though. Sliggy 14:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep, wikipedic and useful to anyone interested in which locations inspire songwriters. Kappa 14:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, though if the list gets long enough, it will need to be subdivided into continents or nations or so on, and made into those separate pages. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Useful list OmegaWikipedia 20:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete How can this outright trivia be considered encyclopedic even by the extraordinarily low standards of inclusionists? Dottore So 18:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Everyone is welcome to contribute to Centralized discussion/Lists of songs &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 22:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Valid list.  User:Zoe|(talk) 23:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is beneath trivial. No more encyclopedic than List of songs whose title includes the letter x. Quale 23:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful and interesting information. --Centauri 06:38, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as preposterous and unmaintainable listcruft. MCB 07:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list for music lovers. Not too trivial. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:27, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - unmaintainable --MacRusgail 13:02, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it wouldn't have been created and maintained if it wasn't of interest. - SimonP 13:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an encyclop&aelig;dia, not an indiscriminate collection of information. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, -DePiep 20:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the list has been maintained by myself and others for months now and the large number of edits by the large number of users testifies to the desire for such a list within Wikipedia. Thanks to DePiep for the heads-up. Thryduulf 20:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I am a DJ on Omar's Dance Party on KLDK lpfm, 96.5 FM, in Dixon New Mexico and have been both a contributer and a USER of this article and another of the song title lists. I have done two shows thus far, one using all songs with American states names and another with American city names.  I have also used the Nonsense title song list for a show. As an aside, I find it interesting that it is the "delete" folks, the "Nay Sayers" if you will,  voting here who seem to need to justify their vote by writing mean, insulting and/or derogatory comments. Carptrash 01:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ditto. Very useful for radio station DJs, as are many of the other song lists (as a DJ on Radio One (New Zealand) I can vouch for that fact). Also, as Thryduulf says, the sheer number of editors to this page indicates that there are a lot of Wikipedians willing to expend time on this article. Grutness...  wha?  01:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Categorize Lists should be used instead of categories only if there is a definable set of members that can reasonably be expected to have every member listed. This list is by its nature uncompletable, so a category, with appropriate subcategories is the way to go. We have a category system, use it! Caerwine 02:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Haukurth and others.-gadfium 03:26, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Listcruft --JAranda &#124; yeah 04:10, 7 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.