Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuzzy Wuzzy (song)

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. Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fuzzy Wuzzy (song)[edit]

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Although the rhyme that makes up the chorus is well-known among children (or at least was when I was a kid) there is no evidence that this song based on it was or is particularly notable. Almost the entire article is just the lyrics, (possibly constituting a copyright violation) and the only "reference" is just the sheet music for the song, so even if we wanted an article on the song this isn't it. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:51, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete An article like this is clearly not notable. Koala15 (talk) 04:25, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. There is little of substance here except for a possible copyright violation. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Possibly keep/Rewrite. Here are some articles that mention the song:

Johnson, Kathy E.; Carolyn B. Mervis (1997). "First steps in the emergence of verbal humor: A case study". Infant Behavior and Development. 20 (2): 187–196. doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90021-7. ISSN 0163-6383.

Cole, Ronald A. (1980). "Segmenting speech into words". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 67 (4): 1323. doi:10.1121/1.384185. ISSN 0001-4966.

Mook, Maurice A. (1959). "Tongue Tanglers from Central Pennsylvania". The Journal of American Folklore. 72 (286). American Folklore Society: 291–296. JSTOR 538578.

Rose, Ralph L. "What's in a pronoun?" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2013.

Lederer, Richard (October 1981). "A Primer of Puns". The English Journal. 70 (6). National Council of Teachers of English: 32–36. JSTOR 817149.

-- Brainy J ~✿~ (talk) 15:36, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is where things unfortunately are not at all clear. The article is about the song released in 1944. The references seem to mostly deal with the children's rhyme that is used as the chorus of the song. The article, with only sheet music as a reference, is not clear on which came first. That is, is the song based on the rhyme or vice-versa? Is there perhaps an answer in any of those sources, if they draw that distinction at all or are even aware of the song? Until we manage to clarify that it's hard to say whether these sources are of use or not, and until we do that it is difficult to improve the article from its current sorry state. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:23, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 19:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have come across this GNews hit for the rhyme, dating from 1940, so it looks as if the rhyme probably came first. PWilkinson (talk) 23:13, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately there has been no clarification as to whether the sources mentioned above pertain to the rhyme or the song. As they are mostly offline or behind paywalls I can't figure that one out for myself, my local library is fairly small and I am not inclined to spend my money to look at the others. So, unless someone is actually able to see those sources and determine which topic they concern we cannot consider them useful as references for this particular article. It may be entirely possible to construct an acceptable article on the rhyme, but it does not look to me like the song ever got much attention. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:53, 26 June 2013 (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.