Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rhode Island, It's for Me


 * 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 of the debate was no consensus; default keep; lyrics transwikied. Johnleemk | Talk 12:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Rhode Island, It's for Me
It's just lyrics. I couldn't determine whether or not it's a copyvio (sometimes state songs are PD). An encyclopedic topic, but needs rewriting from scratch and I couldn't find any relevant info. I'm frightened to observe how long this article has been around (since 8 Sept 2005). Deco 08:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Definitely an encyclopedic topic. Barring discovering a copy-vio, I'd just slap a and  tag in there. -Rebelguys2 08:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Transwiki to WikiSource. KillerChihuahua?!? 09:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki Segv11 (talk/contribs) 10:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep the informative parts, transwiki lyrics. &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-13 06:00Z 
 * what informative parts? Its just lyrics. KillerChihuahua?!? 15:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't know if even the lyrics ought to be transwikied, given that a rough majority of the articles on List of U.S. state songs contain lyrics. Of course, one might just transwiki the lot of them. Melchoir 20:24, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * One might indeed. KillerChihuahua?!? 21:07, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If we can establish that it's GFDL-compatible, then transwiki to WikiSource. Delete from here either way. Stifle 01:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Check out Votes for deletion/Alabama (song). It's eerie. Melchoir 02:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've looked for yet other AfDs, and there aren't any. There's been some discussion: Talk:Home Means Nevada features a couple of anons talking about removing lyrics to no effect; and Talk:Hail, Vermont! features the creator, User:BozMo, talking to himself. Talk:Washington, My Home seems to be the only example, out of dozens, of a state song article that had its lyrics removed. I think the precedents favor keeping lyrics. Plus, as Andrewa pointed out a year ago for Alabama, lots of national anthem articles list lyrics. Melchoir 02:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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