Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/March of the Cornhuskers


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 06:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

March of the Cornhuskers

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Does not warrant a seperate article per WP:NSONGS. Pontificalibus (talk) 16:50, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I think that this article is important since it is a fight song that is played at every Nebraska football game and is part of the culture and tradition of Nebraska football. Other fight songs from multiple schools are listed at Fight song and many of them have expanded out pages for example ISU Fights, I'm a Jayhawk, Wildcat Victory, and CU Fight Song just from the big 12 North, six division one teams from over one hundred teams. I also noticed that there are division 2 and 3 teams. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nebraskafan08 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I am aware there are quite a few similar articles, but I am not convinced most of them should have seperate article. WP:NSONGS states:


 * Most songs do not rise to notability for an independent article and should redirect to another relevant article....Songs that have been ranked on national or significant music charts, that have won significant awards or honors or that have been performed independently by several notable artists, bands or groups are probably notable. Notability aside, a separate article on a song is only appropriate when there is enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article; articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album.


 * I would suggest deleting these articles and including song information on the releveant university or Team pages. --Pontificalibus (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I would also like to note that professional football teams also have there fight songs on wikipedia, for example Bear Down, Chicago Bears. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nebraskafan08 (talk • contribs) 17:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Articles such as The_Super_Bowl_Shuffle at least use reliable third party sources such as ESPN to establish notability.--Pontificalibus (talk) 17:06, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles like the super bowl shuffle as you point out are rap songs and not fight songs. The Culture of the state of Nebraska is centered around Nebraska athletics, mainly football, volleyball and baseball. A documentary of the Nebraska band and fight songs was created and played on NET1 and helped raise 40000 in pledges (see http://www.nebandalums.org/thealumni/documentary.html)) showing that fight songs are important to the local culture. The film has been added to the permanent collection at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. (Nebraskafan08 (talk) 17:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC))

I would also like to note that this song along with the rest of the fight songs were played by the University when it recieved the The Sudler Trophy. Which I feel is a significant honor as related to your prior statement that songs with significant honors deserve there own page.(Nebraskafan08 (talk) 17:24, 9 May 2009 (UTC))


 * Delete - after reviewing the policies on WP:NSONGS as well as associated precedences with university fight songs, I must vote to delete.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  18:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:39, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Going with WP:NSONGS, and pointing out WP:WAX as well. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 19:12, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with above; WP:NSONGS seems to pretty clearly indicate that this song isn't notable enough to merit its own article. Esrever (klaT) 20:25, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

What if this page moved onto a page title "Nebraska Cornhuskers fight songs" and the rest of the fight songs were included on the page. Would that meet the wikipedia standards? If so I will make this page.(Nebraskafan08 (talk) 20:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC))


 * Delete as lacking sources establishing notability. I am most certainly not invoking WP:NSONGS as it seems very biased towards contemporary music and seems to place no importance on songs of historical importance.  However, there are no references in this article that convincingly demonstrate this song's notability.  Were additional sources added, I would be happy to reconsider my !vote.  --ElKevbo (talk) 21:36, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
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