Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What do you do with a Drunken Sailor

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 11:09, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you do with a Drunken Sailor
Doesn't really say anything about the song other than "it's a cool old song", and the lyrics are given as being a copyvio, except I don't think they're actually copyright of anyone. DS 17:33, 4 October 2005 (UTC) Impressive work by Capitalistroadster - vote changed to keep, and thus I think we can now close this debate. DS 12:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep and clean up. Notable Sea shanty referred to in our article as "Drunken Sailor". Doubt if its a copyvio as this is a traditional song. Capitalistroadster 20:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per the Roadster. Kappa 21:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment The lyrics to "Drunken Sailor" are solidly in the public domain, there is no copyright violation. If that was the reason they were removed, they should be put back.
 * I think that the lyrics go to Wikisource, and a nice template box gets added to this article. Jkelly 21:52, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Capitalistroadster. Maybe move &rarr; Drunken Sailor. ~⌈Markaci⌋ 2005-10-5 T 00:09:45 Z
 * Keep but move to Drunken Sailor. Many variations on the first line/title exist (I've always known it as "What shall we do with the...") Grutness...  wha?  01:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and move to Drunken Sailor. Crypticfirefly 04:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and move as above. Notable song with a long history, lyrics are unlikely to be copyvio (though it might not hurt to double-check this - Happy Birthday is still copyrighted for example). 23skidoo 04:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Have cleaned up the article. Should be moved to Drunken Sailor with redirect from "What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor" as per Grutness. Capitalistroadster 11:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Failing that, perhaps merge to sea shanty. --Jacquelyn Marie 16:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep (and move to Drunken Sailor). Weak, because the world is full of old songs, and because they're old they've picked up lots of performances, recordings, etc.  --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 10:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move to Drunken Sailor, preserving the redirect. Jkelly 21:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and move. Very famous song. The original was certainly deletable though (I love how anything having to do with old ships is automatically called "pirate" somethign or other). -R. fiend 18:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)


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