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 no consensus here. No argument that there are serious policy problems (like with verifiability or neutrality), no agreement about whether this falls under content policies like WP:NOT. There's just no consensus here. W.marsh 16:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs featured on The Office (US TV series)[edit]

List of songs featured on The Office (US TV series) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Delete - Wikipedia is not a directory of loosely-associated topics. These songs have nothing in common beyond happening to have been used in an episode of a TV series. Otto4711 20:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Neutral List seems mildly entertaining and a tiny bit informative. Corpx 21:20, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — Per Otto4711 ~ Magnus animuM  ^{BRAIN FREEZE!} 21:20, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge this list into the trivia section of each episode.
• Keep I've been moderating this site close to it's origination on Wikipedia. The music on "The Office" is an integral part of the series. It's just like a soundtrack. To delete this, you'd have to delete all the "Song List" articles. Like the ones for House or The Office (UK). CJMylentz 03:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• The articles for the songs from House and from The Office UK are in fact both up for deletion. Otto4711 13:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Indeed the one for House has now gone. A1octopus 18:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• And the article for the Office UK is now also gone. Otto4711 13:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Listcruft, These songs have nothing in common other than their inclusion on this show. If the show was to put out an album then that would be different because the album could be notable, but otherwise this is an indiscrimate collection of loosely related topics, one of the things which Wikipedia is not. A1octopus 18:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete if the music's notable include it in the article on the show; if not, well it gets deleted. Carlossuarez46 19:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep These songs are a great idea as people can go back to the page and find out what songs appeared in each episode. It is perfect to say, "Oh I loved that song from Season 2 Episode 4, but I cant remember the name" It is a great reference and a must keep.
• Keep per CJMylentz.-BillDeanCarter 23:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT#DIR and precedent at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs featured on The Office (UK TV series) and the deletion of the House-related list. Crazysuit 05:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment While I do suppose lists of this sort are unencyclopedic (as per WP:NOT#DIR), I have to admit that I also find them both interesting and helpful. If this does end up being deleted as the UK series/House lists were, I should expect that the information would be collected in each individual episode page for the series? The music is an important aspect of the series and the songs used should be mentioned somewhere. Pele Merengue 16:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This page may seem useless to some, but it is actually very important to all the articles concerning The Office. It prevents people from adding songs from the office on other pages and so it makes other articles better because they have less trivia. Yaanch^Speak! 01:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Better here than there is not a convincing argument. Otto4711 00:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep I dont get some of you people. Wikipedia is meant to be a source of information, yet some of you seem to have nothing better to do than go marking extremely useful pages for deletion. For fans of the show, this is an very useful source of information - in one easily browsable location. The music is an integral part of the show, and has ALOT to do with it. If you find this page 'irrelevant' then go assault some other articles with your unwanted presence, this article was going fine without your interference. Rebound86 13:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING is not a convincing argument. Otto4711 00:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Most of the "keep" arguments here have boiled down to WP:ILIKEIT, WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING, and WP:ALLORNOTHING. I can see how a fan of the series would find this list helpful, and informative, but that's not a reason it needs to be on Wikipedia. Surely another website, a fan site for The Office for example, could have this same information, if indeed the main article cannot feasibly contain it. (Also, I don't find the "we need this spin-off article so that the main article doesn't get cluttered with trivia" very convincing.) Charlie 10:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep — Music plays a significant role in television. Listing songs used in episodes is encyclopaedic. Remember that Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopaedia. I believe that eventually this can turn into a decent article. Matthew 14:39, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• The fact that Wikipedia is not paper does not mean that every aricle is given a free pass. Regardless of the storage medium if the article fails policy it should be deleted. Otto4711 15:01, 19 May 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.