Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about Ronald Reagan

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The result was delete. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 04:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs about Ronald Reagan[edit]

Let's just IINFO this. Odd. Very odd. Cool Blue^{talk to me} 23:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep::: Odd, yes, but not bad. It makes sense... our 40th President presided during the golden years of MTV. I'm surprised at how many well-known artists had a comment (usually a protest) about Reagan. I doubt any president, before or since-- not Nixon, not Dubya, definitely not Millard Fillmore-- has had so many rock tributes. Mandsford 23:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep Actually encyclopedic. It's easy to quote IINFO, but harder to say why an encyclopedia should not contain information like this. DGG 23:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 08:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 08:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is excessive. At best, a few examples could be given in an article or section demonstrating the cultural impact of Ronald Reagan, but this list in itself is not particularly encyclopaedic or necessary. The fact that these songs are about Ronald Reagan demonstrates nothing for us about either the songs or Reagan, whereas a short, well-writen section about his cultural impact that mentioned or two of these as an example would be far more effective. GassyGuy 10:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Next we'll have a list of songs about George Bush. --Rabid Monkeys Eat Grass 19:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It makes sense to me to keep this. A concise list to reference is far superior to many songs cluttering up the "Cultural references" section of the actual "Ronald Reagan" site Frog47 21:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a bad precedent; unless we have in a Lernaean Hydra-like way managed to kill off the List of songs containing overt references to real musicians only to let sprout hundreds of lists that pass muster under the "but its about a certain notable individual" rubric: List of songs about Mick Jagger, List of songs about Bob Dylan, List of songs about Yoko Ono, to which I say OH! NO!. Carlossuarez46 01:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Carlossuarez46. —^Jack_Lumber^/tɔk/ 21:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete article as it is for obvious failing of WP:UNENC but if it could be cleaned or recreated to something like List of notable songs by notable artists about Ronald Regan then there may be a case to look at it again. A1octopus 18:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, WP:NOT#INFO--Tone 17:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, for being, like, uh, <gum-snap>, so what?--Mike18xx 03:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I view the WP:NOT#IINFO argument to be extremely weak (not to mention undeveloped) in this case. I think the fact that the list may constitute original research is a more serious issue. The article claims that these songs are "about Ronald Reagan". Well ... according to whom? The subject of a song is not something that can be definitively deduced from its lyrics. A List of songs that mention Ronald Reagan would avoid the original research problem, but would also hold little or no encyclopedic value. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 04:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or at worst Merge back into List of songs about politicians, which had overhelming support a couple years back (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about politicians). I would offer to help do some of the much needed clean-up and merger if needed. -MrFizyx 15:22, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have userfied a copy of the content with the intention of returning some of it to List of songs about politicians (else it leaves a large hole where readers are refered to this article). I'll await some direction from the closing admin before acting. I suggest a redirect to the larger list to preserve edit history. If the larger list is later deleted then this one could be deleted at that time. -MrFizyx 14:01, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all previous delete comments. Otto4711 14:40, 19 June 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.