Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Football (soccer) song

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The result was delete. List cannot be adequately referenced or sourced, and borders on listcruft seicer | talk | contribs 02:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Football (soccer) song[edit]

Contested prod. Original concern was: "This article is completely unsourced and covers a topic that is extremely unlikely to have any third party coverage. The term "football song" is not a term used in common parlance. FA Cup Final song would be more appropriate, with a subsection of that article covering the phenomenon of national teams recording songs for major international tournaments" – Pee Jay 09:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. – Pee Jay 09:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - consists of one sentence stating the bleeding obvious ("a football song is a song about football") followed by a a random (indiscriminate) mish-mash of songs used to promote football events but not actually about football (eg "Nessun Dorma"), songs recorded by footballers, terrace songs (already covered in Football chant), and, erm, "Eat My Goal", which seems to have little connection with football other than having the word "goal" in the title...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and ChrisTheDude. Giant Snowman 12:18, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*Weak keep - Rename to a List article I think there is a good idea here, there should be a list article of songs that were released to album/single, produced songs from world cup theme songs. Any song that had a release. The list should contain song names, release date, by whom and what it was associated with. I am sure citation could be found with that in mind. Govvy (talk) 23:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete then as we already have a list of songs in another article. Govvy (talk) 18:45, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. We already have a list of Club-specific songs. Dynablaster (talk) 00:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Official songs recorded and released for a football event, or performed by footballers, are not the same as football chants. If these songs have been included in that article, then that article has the wrong name and a factually incorrect lede section, and any information over there that relates to released songs rather than chants should be moved here. MickMacNee (talk) 23:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, Keep per above reasoning. Or a very good merge if someone volunteers.JJJ999 (talk) 11:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Football songs are completely different from football chants. /Yvwv (talk) 11:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Peejay and ChrisTheDude. -- Alexf^(talk) 20:27, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. If the article was better written then it should be kept but I don't see the point of it as it is, plus the title could be better.--EchetusXe (talk) 22:42, 12 January 2009 (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.