Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Francisco is a Lonely Town


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 08:25, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

San Francisco is a Lonely Town

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no indication of meeting WP:NSONGS Covered by a few people but not made any impact on charts. References given do not support notability and google searches do not find anything. Disputed prod. noq (talk) 01:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 01:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - WP:NSONGS states "Songs that have been ranked on national or significant music charts, that have won significant awards or honors or that have been independently released as a recording by several notable artists, bands or groups are probably notable." Well, this did chart, in a minor way admittedly, and it has been independently released by oodles of notable artists - at least 11, by my count. I also thought the recent Nouvelle Vague remix showed that it was still considered in some way interesting, perhaps as a period piece. (I am the author of the article, btw.) Brianyoumans (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And I have just discovered that two versions of the song charted in 1969 - a version by the songwriter, Ben Peters, was on the country charts.Brianyoumans (talk) 04:15, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * And now I found yet another obscure chart appearance of the song, #86 on the country charts in 1979 for someone named "Nick Nixon". I kid you not.Brianyoumans (talk) 06:04, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per the creator. made the Hot 100 in one iteration, rich tradition of covers. 86.44.31.213 (talk) 05:10, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment How does it meet WP:NSONGS. A large number of covers could do it if there was enough material for a substantial article - all this article is is a list of people that have covered it - all with very little success. noq (talk) 10:56, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not a great fan of the recording by several notable artists part of WP:NSONGS, but 3 chart entries by different artists does make it notable. Richhoncho (talk) 14:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed about the covers bit. Back in the 40s - 50s -60s, it was quite normal for a song to come out from multiple artists - singers and bands would put out many albums a year, and they would cover the currently popular tunes and old standards. In country music this lasted until more recently, and is still somewhat true, I think. So the fact that there were multiple covers would simply mean that people in the industry thought a cover could be successful, either because other covers had been or because they simply thought it had potential which the other covers hadn't mined.Brianyoumans (talk) 16:45, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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