Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs referencing drinking

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The result was delete. Sr 13 02:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs referencing drinking[edit]

Delete - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and Wikipedia is not a collection of loosely-associated topics. These songs have no commonality in terms of style, theme or subject matter beyond the happenstance of mentioning drinking or alcohol in the lyrics. The list survived an AFD in 2005 but the reasons offered for keeping then, ranging from we have other lists like it so why not to some of the best songs are drinking songs, are not particularly compelling. A number of similar lists have been deleted recently and this one is no better. Otto4711 13:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Probably includes 60% of all songs. --Evb-wiki 13:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
While I'm sure the Temperance Union would like to have this list for reference purposes, I don't see enough encyclopedic value to keep it. Chromaticity 14:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 14:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 14:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOT (listcrap) /Blaxthos 15:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. What's next -- List of songs referencing love? (Please don't create that.) --Butseriouslyfolks 17:13, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a highly unencyclopedic list. "Songs about x" is so often hard to maintain anyway -- lyrics aren't always concrete, so a song could be interpreted to be about drinking when it's really not. In addition, there're, like, 56 million country songs that are missing from this list (and I'm a country fan too, so don't jump on me for stereotyping country music)... Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 18:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete Zero tolerance with articles that being with "List of songs...", delete it before it spreads! Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This definitely does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. — brighterorange (talk) 21:10, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete Or we'll end up with List of songs referencing cheese. A1octopus 20:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Loosely related list. The number of articles about "lists of songs" is getting annoying. In fact, it's almost as annoying as "my garage band..." Useight 23:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete. The number of these songs is innumerable. --Rabid Monkeys Eat Grass 19:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I have to agree that the topic is too broad to create a useful index. I would not be so adverse to List of traditional Irish drinking songs or List of songs about alcoholism were they to exist, and I can see some usefulness in List of songs about tequila. -MrFizyx 18:03, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. All those articles whose title commences with List of songs... shall be mercilessly deleted. —^Jack_Lumber^/tɔk/ 22:03, 14 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.