Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Days and Months in Song

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 01:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Days and Months in Song

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As much as I hate to use the term listcruft, this appears to be an indiscriminate collection and/or arbitrary means of presenting information. A list of songs with days and months in their titles may be of cursory interest, but seems like bad precedent for an encyclopedia as, in theory, such a "list of songs with X in the title" could be made for any such topic. --Kinu ^t/_c 02:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it currently isn't even restricted only to the title, but applies to all mentions of a day or month in the lyrics, which is certainly too broad.--Tikiwont (talk) 07:52, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Wow, I hadn't fully noticed that until you mentioned that. As such, this strengthens my belief that this is an arbitrary list. Indeed, for precedent's sake, the similarly-natured deletion here is the example used for such at Wikipedia:Overlistification... and at least those were about tequila, whereas these just mention a date or somesuch. It seems that this would be highly unmaintainable and unwieldy. --Kinu ^t/_c 01:42, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It's even broader than that. If the date can be inferred from the song, it makes it on the list. The example I see is Johnny Horton's song The Battle of New Orleans. Although the song does begin, "In 1814, we took a little trip...", it doesn't refer to January or January 8 in its lyrics. A well-intentioned idea, submitted for our reaction before a lot of time is invested (hence, I'll go ahead and say delete), but this one would be too wide in scope to be useful. I can see some merit in a list of Billboard Hot 100 songs that mention a date in the title, such as the hit country song 8th of November, but that would be a major undertaking itself. Mandsford (talk) 17:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Trivia / listcruft. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 06:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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