Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs with the name of a musical performer in their title


 * 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 Mr.Z-man  talk ¢ 20:32, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

List of songs with the name of a musical performer in their title

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Delete - similar to many other recently deleted pages for similar lists, this is an indiscriminate directory of loosely-associated topics. The inclusion criteria are a bit on the broad side, capturing songs from which acts took their names and songs which have pre-existing musical act's names in them. Beyond that, the songs have nothing in common beyond happening to have a music act's name in the title. As trivial as the many other lists of songs deleted, including: Articles for deletion/List of English songs whose title includes the name of a landmark, Articles for deletion/List of songs with the word "song" in their title or lyrics, Articles for deletion/List of English songs whose title includes the name of a fictional place, Articles for deletion/List of songs whose title includes a phone number (3rd nomination), Articles for deletion/List of songs that are also the name of a TV show, Articles for deletion/List of songs whose title includes dates and times. This was nominated once for deletion in 2004 with a result of "PAGE ALTERED significantly to make the vote invalid." Otto4711 19:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - I can imagine circumstances where this could be useful, e.g. it's far from implausible that someone could be working on a study of songs that reference other musicians. Barnabypage 20:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This one is definitely trivial. For instance, "I Try to Think About Elvis" by Patty Loveless only mentions the King in one line. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" by Garth Brooks only mentions Chris LeDoux in one line. Even "Walking in Memphis" only gives one-line mentions of the artists that it mentions. Do you see my point? It's far too indiscriminate. Kill it before it spreads. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 20:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and every other reason already put forward But Partially Recreate a new article along the lines of List of Bands which have taken their names from existing songs (some of which seem to have got on this list) as that list would be encyclopedic, of interest, and easily verifyable. 81.158.41.23 20:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Just realised we already have such an item, so just delte this one. 81.158.41.23 20:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Further Comment - 81.158.41.23 was in this case User:A1octopus who had forgotten to sign in.


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.  -- Pax:Vobiscum 15:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --JayJasper 22:04, 5 June 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.