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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 14:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of artists who have covered songs by The Smiths[edit]

List of artists who have covered songs by The Smiths (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Unencyclopedic list; Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information —Doug Bell ^talk 08:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Delete - unnecessary list per WP:LIST, and probably comes under WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information. Also currently unverified (although it should be possible to verify it, as the criteria for inclusion are quite specific and aren't subjective or random). Walton monarchist89 09:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Week Keep Probably a reasonable split of valuable information from The Smiths, whose songs are frequently covered. As long as artists are notable. -- Kendrick7^talk 20:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as an indiscriminate list. If the original songs are notable the covers can be mentioned in the song article, and the covers can also be mentioned in the articles for those covering them. Otto4711 20:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I would expect that a song that gets covered by multiple notable artists is automatically notable itself per WP:N. I suppose this info could be split out, and a WP:CAT (i.e. Category:Smith's Songs covered by other artists could be used to cover this. Seems like a bit of footwork.... -- Kendrick7^talk 20:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as an indiscriminate list. This is but one important band, of many. Just multiply that by a few hundred times, and for good measure add the Beatles, Stones, Quincy Jones, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, 黃霑 and you will see the unmaintanable scale of the potential problem. Ohconfucius 09:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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