Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of birthday songs

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:26, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of birthday songs[edit]

A whole bunch of copyright violations. Or at least, potential copyright violations. AnyPerson (talk) 05:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Yeh... Not only is it just a bunch of copyright violations on one page, but it's also in 100% not-English. No one on the English Wikipedia would be looking for this. flaming lawyer 05:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete because aside from the copyright issues, Wikipedia is not a directory or a lyrics database. Somno (talk) 08:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per everybody. The main body of the article is COPYVIO plus LYRICS plus WP:NOTENGLISH; the final section is a content fork of Happy Birthday (disambiguation). Baileypalblue (talk) 12:48, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Talk about a mess. Completely aside from the copyright issues, why ever would we want a page that's largely useless to all its readers? Nyttend (talk) 15:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Blow out the candles on this one. Interesting, but totally unsourced-- written in 2006, when stuff like that wasn't considered important. The topic of birthday celebrations and the culture of acknowledging milestones is encyclopedic, to be sure, and a well-written article, with links to other sites, would be most welcome. However, we can't just take someone's word for it that kids in Iran are serenaded with "Tavallod, Tavallod, Tavallodet Mobarak". Mandsford (talk) 15:44, 25 January 2009 (UTC) [reply]
Delete and then recreate as redirect to Happy Birthday to You as a plausible search term, after deletion due to potential copyright problems. If readers want translations, they can check out the inter-wiki links. --Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 18:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 18:43, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep because Gens du pays and Las Mananitas are not versions of Happy Birthday, and it has a list of "non-Canonical" songs at the bottom. If this is a copyright violoation I guess that means "delete and recreate". Brownsnout spookfish (talk) 19:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve. There needs to be sources for every one of them--and if they are indeed traditional songs, or widespread modern songs, they should each have an individual article. Any of them published before 1924 is PD, so there probably isn't massive copyvio, but we'd need to see the sources. DGG (talk) 00:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Copyright violations, trivial and just useless listcruft. Also: Wikipedia isn't a directory for this type of information. RobJ1981 (talk) 18:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: WP:NOTDIRECTORY, WP:NOTGUIDE, copyright violations. JamesBurns (talk) 01:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Trim down to a list of song titles; then improve with sourcing. Any lyrics that are in the public domain should be in an article about the song, as it ought to be easy to prove the notability of the traditional birthday song of any country. DHowell (talk) 02:25, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: article has been rewritten. I've now edited this down to a pure list and started adding references. Please reconsider based on the current state of the article. It should no longer be a copyright violation nor a lyrics database. DHowell (talk) 05:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not a directory nor is it a guidebook. Wikipedia covers things from an encyclopedic perspective, compiling how things have been analyzed and recieved in the world. This list of birthday songs by its very nature of the subject matter cannot be an article as there is nothing to put in the article about the list, the only thing one can do is just write the list. Themfromspace (talk) 13:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, people who want to know about other birthday songs can look in the respective articles. Benefix (talk) 15:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a different article than what was nominated, with the most important change being that it is now sourced. People who want to know about other birthday songs can start by looking at a list that cites to verifiable sources, and can click on any blue links to find the respective articles. Not everyone wants to pick through the category haystack to learn more, nor is there any reason why it must be a choice between one or another. Mandsford (talk) 22:25, 28 January 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.