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 Delete. There was a procedural nom (expressing no opinion), three Delete votes, one Keep (from an editor who may or may not have vanished), one Merge and one Do-not-merge. All votes appear consistent with policy, although the sourcing for this list has been seriously questioned. I'm happy to userfy this list for anyone to work on who thinks they can do something with it that complies with policy. If I were forced to express my own opinion I'd note that List of The Beach Boys songs might seem to meet any need that this list would answer. EdJohnston (talk) 18:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Beach Boys songs by singer[edit]

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Relisting individually from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Beach Boys songs. There were suggestions to merge into List of The Beach Boys songs as well as to delete this article outright. As a procedural nomination, I have no opinion. Wafulz (talk) 12:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Cliff smith ^talk 16:44, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete but... I would change my !vote to merge to List of The Beach Boys songs iff someone can persuade me there is a reliable source out there to identify the singer of each number, and someone else can persuade me that they're prepared to perform the merge. I don't think I'll be persuaded to vote keep, though. AndyJones (talk) 16:55, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per my earlier rationale at the previous afd. Categorizing songs by who sang lead is trivial and largely unverifiable. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 17:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into List of The Beach Boys songs and delete List of Beach Boys songs by singer, reformatting List of The Beach Boys songs as a sortable list, like List of The Beatles songs; then anyone can view the songs by singer by sorting on that column. TJRC (talk) 02:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. You can't merge then delete something, for GFDL reasons. What you seem to be arguing for is covered by saying "merge". AndyJones (talk) 07:55, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, "merge." TJRC (talk) 06:35, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per items 1-4 and 8 at WP:LC. Stifle (talk) 16:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Wikipedia:Lists (discriminate, encyclopedic, maintainable, notable, unoriginal, and verifiable). --Happy editing! Sincerely, Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 16:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: This !vote actually added by User:B988a4299d07c0f61fbc8378965438f0 and not by GRdC. I'll drop a note at GRdC's talk page to ask if this was really him. AndyJones (talk) 07:47, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further comment: GRdC's talk page has been deleted and replaced with a "right to vanish" message. I haven't left a message. AndyJones (talk) 07:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • He did an RTV and was renamed to that name by his request. No problems here. Stifle (talk) 08:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Do not merge. List of The Beach Boys songs is already 91 kb. Adding this content and making that list sortable will create other problems; many Beach Boys songs have more than one lead singer and would only sort according to the first lead singer listed. Also, sorting The Beatles list by song name results in A Beginning and A Day In The Life (among others) coming before Across The Universe, which is just wrong. I would assume that the same thing would happen with this list. I take no position on whether List of Beach Boys songs by singer should be deleted or not; there are good arguments either way. MookieZ (talk)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:21, 9 September 2008 (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.