Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Song for a special occasion


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The result was   keep. It's a keep. Feel free to move it to a more appropriate title. Tone 17:46, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Song for a special occasion

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The article is based on the mistaken idea that because the Danes have a concept of "a song for a special occasion" then other cultures must too. There are of course no references to support this - links to pages about birthday songs, graduation songs etc but not to anything about a wider concept. Fails WP:RS andy (talk) 14:45, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 15:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 15:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep and move. This is a case of poor translation. The Danish article actually starts off by calling it a uniquely Danish tradition. This source reveals that the English term is "occasional song"; the article should be moved either to that or to the Danish Lejlighedssang and rewritten, but there is demonstrably RS; the Danish article cites an entire book on the lejlighedssang, and this and this are academic articles about it. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:03, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Article was poorly written and mistitled. I have done a brief rewrite for Wikipedia style. There are more sources for this. — Cactus Writer (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep as per the above sources, but move to occasional song. Moving to to Lejlighedssang in the English Wikipedia doesn't quite seem right but is another option if the term is more widely-spread among some English-speakers. §everal⇒|Times 17:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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