Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Composers and songwriters


 * 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 debate was Speedy Delete. The page has been deleted by per WP:CSD ("Housekeeping"). Please consult J. regarding that action on his talk page if you have any questions. Anthøny 00:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Requested articles/music/Composers and songwriters
This section was originally split off in the main music requests page as a way to ease the pressure on other very large sections (classical composers and performers/bands). When these became their own separate pages, C&S got its own page, too. The trouble with this page was that it was poorly defined. It was supposed to be a place for songwriters who were not primarily known for performing (like Holland-Dozier-Holland, or Dan Emmett), and for composers of music that was not European classical music (composers of, say, Chinese or Indian classical music, or film music composers). But what really happened was, it became an enormous dumping ground for bands, singer-songwriters, deejays, and classical composers - stuff that really belonged on the other request pages. Furthermore, tons of requests were placed on both the bands page and the C&S page, which just led to the requests' appearing to have an inflated importance (reflected at WP:MWA on occasion).

So, what I did was meticulously go through the entire 30k list entry by entry, lop off the entries that were pretty clearly a long way from being worthy of an article, and farm out all the remaining requests to the other request pages. And now the job's done and the list's empty. This page is no longer needed. Chubbles (talk) 03:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per the amazing and hard-working nominator :) Rocket000 (talk) 06:09, 21 November 2007 (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.