Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of top-ten dance singles of 1976


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:57, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

List of top-ten dance singles of 1976

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This to me appears to be an unnecessary dive into list mania. Is it really necessary to add another sorting criterion to the large selection of lists clustering around Billboard charts ? - in fact, there would have to be 79 (to date) of them... and the sub-chart article at Dance Club Songs is already piling it on quite thickly with the special interest lists.

I can't say I'm much conversant with the conventions regarding charting articles, so feel free to tell me this is A-Okay, but it does feel somewhat egregious. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:43, 6 May 2019 (UTC) Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:43, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:58, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:59, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment: even if this is kept, the title would need to be changed... it doesn't say that it's talking about the US rather than any other country, and it should include the full chart name in the title. Richard3120 (talk) 21:01, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete The number of articles copying the data of all of the music charts gets absurd and this is WP:NOTSTATS territory, with everything coming from the single primary source. There's already an article for the List of number-one dance singles of 1976 (U.S.) this could be redirected to. These number-one articles could certainly be merged to be per decade rather than per year as some have but I digress... Reywas92Talk 21:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom’s claim of being excessive, and Reywas’s claim of redundancy. Sergecross73   msg me  22:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. This has historical value. It can be sourced. Germcrow (talk) 10:42, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Nothing of historical value would be lost in deletion. The entire thing is sourced to Billboard. This is just a replication of what is readily available on their website (And is mostly covered elsewhere on Wikipedia too.) Sergecross73   msg me  15:07, 7 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete These secondary charts are not regularly covered in non-primary sources so as the nom suggests once you delve into them beyond the lists of number ones (which already exist) it's just trivia. This is also bordering WP:OR as the only way to put these together is to go through the primary source week by week to confirm top ten debut, weeks in the top ten, etc. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 03:12, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, failed WP:LISTN. Need to demonstrate that such list is given in independent reliable sources, which it failed to do so. Hzh (talk) 08:30, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


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