Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs with titles that do not appear in the lyrics


 * 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 keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:47, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

List of songs with titles that do not appear in the lyrics
The list was interesting in the past, but now it has grown to the extent where it may become unmaintainable/unsalvageable.
 * Delete as overgrown list that's potentially unmaintainable. --SuperDude 04:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Votes for deletion/List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics --rob 04:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as has been decided each time it's been nominated. -- Jake 07:08, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. What sort of craziness says that while there weren't many songs on this list it was worth having in Wikipedia, but now that it has been extended it is no longer encyclopaedic? Grutness...  wha?  10:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, neutral, factual, verifiable. Trollderella 16:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, not incredibly long. Kappa 18:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - there seems to be no unifying theme in this massive list. Having the title in the lyrics seems as common as not, and the fact that two songs do not have their title in their lyrics establishes no artistic common thread between them. I think any grouping based on lyrical content should establish such a common thread. That said, this article seems to me a collection of random facts, about as useful as List of songs where the letter E does not appear in the lyrics. flowersofnight 20:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - unmanageable. --MacRusgail 20:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: original research, impossible to practically verifiy, unmaintainable, and likely to grow without bounds. --Carnildo 22:11, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep This list may be of some minor convenience at some point sometime. Youngamerican 02:31, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP (How is this considered original research? It's taking things that are easy-to-verify and putting them all in one place).  If this list gets unmanageable, a simple change would be to make an alphabetized page for each band (ie: Bands starting with A, Starting with B etc).  Also, my vote goes as per Trollderella and Kappa and Jake Nelson above. --Tedzsee 03:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Trollderella, or at least categorize. --Jacquelyn Marie 03:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Gamaliel 18:24, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unmaintainable listcruft, especially since the criteria for inclusion is hardly distinctive, as flowersofnight notes above. MCB 20:51, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per above.  Grue   17:33, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP, for reasons already stated, yadda yadda yadda. But possibly consolidate to only include songs released as singles. --Fallout boy 03:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Utterly pointless. I can't even believe how many people vote to keep it, and I'm a bit tired of hearing the same old retort "Oh it's been useful to me in the past!". How how how? You are side-stepping the issue. It is not enough to state the list IS useful. HOW is it useful? And besides its trivial content, the list is already growing beyond acceptable proportion. Furthermore I agree with everything Flowersofnight said. Please people, offer a reasonable defense --Steerpike 15:58, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Somebody obviously went to to a lot of work to create this or they copied from someone that did a lot of work. Why should we take that away from them?--Ewok Slayer 02:14, 19 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.