Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of sound files

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: Mark as historical. — xaosflux  Talk 00:11, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:List of sound files


This was a nice idea back when the list was created in 2005 and there were very few sound files available. Now, however, Commons alone has over 1 million sound files and this list is very out-of-date. It's last major overhaul was in 2015 when a bot regenerated the lists. That was before we even allowed mp3 files. Since it is now impossible to manually maintain these lists, we either need a dedicated bot to keep it up to date or we should delete them. Personally, I favor deletion since these lists are largely redundant to Commons categories like Category:Music by Frederic Chopin, which don't need to be manually maintained. Kaldari (talk) 20:23, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note that this deletion discussion includes the 15 sub-pages as well (which I haven't explicitly marked for deletion). Kaldari (talk) 20:26, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. There is no utility to these long lists Legacypac (talk) 20:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Mark as historical – I agree that the list is basically impossible to maintain now, but we don't delete things just because they're out of date; we mark them as historical. I monitor these lists for any renamings/removals of sound files on them. Commons delinker and its ilk don't do a good job of dealing with sound files within templates (e.g. listen), so I have the sound lists on my watchlist in case I need to remove the files manually. Graham 87 01:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Question - Is this thing being maintained? If so, Weak Keep.  If not, Delete All.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, there are far too many sound files to be feasibly maintained by hand anymore and this list is woefully out of date. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:58, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep as historical per Graham87. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 04:12, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep and tag as historical, as per the well-reasoned rationale of Graham87 above. North America1000 05:24, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep and mark as historical per above. SemiHypercube 20:41, 7 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.