Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of instrumental songs

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The result was delete. Consensus is abundandtly clear, so closing a couple hours ahead of time. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:53, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of instrumental songs[edit]

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Utterly uncompleteable and arguably non-notable. Overall, most music is instrumental. Hairhorn (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Quite notable but this list is unmaintainable. It does not have clear inclusion guidelines. I believe that any clear inclusion guideline would define a scope either so large as to be impossible to use and maintain, or else far too narrow for the article's title. Acceptable instrumental lists might include a list of all instrumentals that charted on a major national chart. (Of course, then we run into problems of defining "instrumental" -- is "Tequila (song)" an instrumental? "Wipe Out (song)"? Powers ^T 12:25, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My argument against notability would be simply that it's too broad to be notable as a list, (even though Music and Instrumental music are unambiguously notable topics). It's no more notable than, say, List of of all streets in the world. Beyond a certain point, list length varies inversely with significance of the list itself. Hairhorn (talk) 02:06, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per Powers - a totally unmaintainable list, with no real criteria Shadowjams (talk) 14:07, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - unmantainable list without inclusion guidelines. There are also songs on there that aren't notable for their own article. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 16:16, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom. Rlendog (talk) 00:53, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete too vague of a criteria for inclusion (WP:SALAT) makes any attempt at a list to be laughably incomplete. I'd say this is too wide for a category even. Them From Space 01:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Subject matter far too broad to be useful. There are hundreds of thousands of instrumental songs. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 02:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the cogent statements above. in addition, the article confuses songs with performances. exactly 100% of all songs ever written may be performed without vocals, and most have (muzak, anyone?). I could see a nice list of instrumental releases which top the pop/rock/etc charts, by country or US only. that is unusual, and thus notable. jazz instrumental releases are not notable, of course, as there are so many. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. —J04n(talk page) 13:10, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Worthwhile subject, wrong approach, starting with "This list is meant to cover all genres". Are there any jazz compositions that aren't instrumentals? Any list of this nature would need to be limited to measurably popular instrumentals (such as on Billboard charts), would have to have a set definition (pop music rather than classical, for instance) and, ideally, would have links to .wav files so that someone could say, "Oh, so that's what "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" is". Most of these don't have universal recognition. The first "hits" that I recognized were "Chariots of Fire" and "Classical Gas". Mandsford (talk) 20:13, 6 December 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.