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The result was delete. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 02:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of Vocalists[edit]

List of Vocalists (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Superfluous, and the list would be huge if filled. Category:Singers is more than enough. Erzsébet Báthory_{(talk|contr.)} 11:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Subject is way too broad for a single list. Breaking the list up by some categorisation (e.g. genre of music and date, like List of 1960's rock and roll vocalists) may be appropriate, but this list as structured at the moment is simply infeasible. JulesH (talk) 13:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Though not as bad as "List of Humans". - Ddawkins73 (talk) 16:38, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It may have seemed like a good idea when it was started, but this is the list that could never be complete. Every song ever sung has been done by a vocalist. Mandsford (talk) 19:41, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 23:08, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 23:08, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Categories are not superior to lists - see WP:CLS. If the list needs work then it is just WP:IMPERFECT like most of our articles. AFD is not cleanup. Colonel Warden (talk) 11:54, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, I agree that lists and categories can both be useful, but I don't see the potential for a list that casts as wide a net as this one. As a navigation tool, a list like this is not useful. It's no exaggeration to say that we have thousands of articles about persons who are singers, and that after such a list is (inevitably) split into A, B, C, each article would have hundreds of entries. If I'm looking for a particular needle, a smaller haystack is still a haystack. Mandsford (talk) 14:47, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: this list topic is too broad in scope to be useful. JamesBurns (talk) 06:08, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Category:Singers. I would say merge and redirect to List of singers, but that is just a redirect to the category, so we may as well redirect this to the same category. Though if this were made into a "list of lists", it would be acceptible as a stand-alone list per the guideline. DHowell (talk) 02:43, 18 February 2009 (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.