Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of protest songs

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

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of protest songs[edit]

I suspect this will prove controversial but here goes. What we have here is an infinite list that can never come close to completion, making every single entry on it arbitrary. The fact is nearly every song by bands like Crass, Dead Kennedys, Subhumans could easily qualify for this list, though only a few are included. And that's just a few bands from one specific genre. Peruse the talk page and you'll see ample discussions of problems of inclusion, definition, and verifiability, mostly unsettled in any general sense. Songs by redlinked bands are not uncommon, leading me to believe people are adding songs by their garage band. The article is way too long to have any sort of quality control, and who knows how many completely erroneous entries there are. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs with brackets in their titles, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of song titles phrased as questions, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about romance (including breakups) are examples of debates on articles with similar problems that have since been deleted.

Oh, and please don't drag the whole "a lot of people have worked on this article so we should keep it" arugment in. It's irrelevent, and doesn't hold water. R. fiend 20:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete My biggest problem with the article is the lack of verifiable sources. How do we know that these songs were made to be protest songs? Did the band announce it? Basically, all of this is original research unless someone can prove that all of these songs were created to protest something. There is no context given and no basis for what is included and what is not. --Cyrus Andiron 22:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete per the precedent set by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about romance (including breakups), and per what Cyrus said about OR. Goodnightmush 22:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete but it would be nice to have a list of only the famous ones. Perhaps trim the list to contain only those songs with a non-stub-class article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eldar (talk • contribs) 22:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Could Work, Possibly a list of Number 1 protest songs, but would need credible reason to believe they are "protest songs". Goodnightmush 23:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete one person's protest song is another's commercial sell-out. Carlossuarez46 23:33, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The list is an arbitary representation. It has less mmerit than a List of songs about %s, which would be crufty at best. - Tiswas^(t/c) 09:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unmaintainable/scope too broad. –Pomte 22:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Listcruft in current form because scope is too vague. It would be acceptable to have individual lists of songs about specific protests eg "List of songs about the Jarrow March" or "List of Pro-Life Rock Songs" and so forth. A1octopus 18:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.