Deletion of List of classic rock songs

Comment: Passes . Sources include, but are not limited to: {{cite web | url=http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/ | title=Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be | publisher=FiveThirtyEight (ESPN Internet Ventures) | date=7 Jul 2014 | author=Hickey, Walt}} "To see what the current state of classic rock in the United States looks like, I monitored 25 classic rock radio stations1 operating in 30 of the country’s largest metropolitan areas for a week in June.2 The result, after some substantial data cleaning, was a list of 2,230 unique songs by 475 unique artists, with a total record of 37,665 coded song plays across the stations." https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/classic-rock/classic-rock-song-list.csv 2,230 song list (http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ffivethirtyeight%2Fdata%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fclassic-rock%2Fclassic-rock-song-list.csv&date=2016-01-19 WebCite archive), {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Joel_Whitburn_s_Rock_Tracks.html?id=8k5LAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y | title=Joel Whitburn's Rock Tracks: Mainstream Rock 1981-2002 : Modern Rock, 1988-2002 : Bonus Section! Classic Rock Tracks, 1964-1980 | publisher=Record Research | author=Whitburn, Joel | year=2002| isbn=0898201535}}, {{cite book | last=Heatley | first=M. | last2=Hopkinson | first2=F. | title=The Girl in the Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics | publisher=Pavilion Books | series=EBL-Schweitzer | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-909396-88-3 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bsC_CAAAQBAJ | accessdate=January 25, 2016}}, {{cite book | last=Leonard | first=H. | title=25 Top Classic Rock Songs | publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4803-4059-6 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KFL1SoGfySQC}}, {{cite book | last=Morse | first=T. | title=Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All Time | publisher=St. Martin's Press | year=1998 | isbn=978-1-4299-3750-4 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bYKuiC4Hz2YC}}, {{cite book | last=Staff | first=Hal Leonard Corporation | last2=Corporation | first2=Hal Leonard Publishing | title=The Best Classic Rock Songs Ever: 63 Legendary Hits | publisher=Hal Leonard | series=Best Ever Series | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-634-03648-4 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vHfmnQEACAAJ}}, {{cite web | last=Caldwell | first=Christina | title=10 Classic Rock Songs that Would Still Be Hits Today | website=Phoenix New Times | date=September 14, 2015 | url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/10-classic-rock-songs-that-would-still-be-hits-today-7654931 | accessdate=January 25, 2016}}, {{cite web | last=McPadden | first=Mike | title=Rock’s Dirty Mouth Dozen: 13 Classic Songs Allowed To Swear On The Radio | website=''VH1''  |no-tracking=yes | date=July 27, 2015 | url=http://www.vh1.com/news/41217/classic-rock-radio-songs-with-profanity/ | accessdate=January 25, 2016}}, {{cite web | last=McPadden | first=Mike | title=Decoding 8 Classic Songs With Lyrics That Have Baffled Fans For Decades | website=VH1 News | date=August 11, 2015 | url=http://www.vh1.com/news/47766/classic-rock-mystery-lyrics/ | accessdate=January 25, 2016}}, {{cite web | title=7 Miley Cyrus Covers Of Classic Rock Songs That The Pop Star Tackled With Aplomb | website=Bustle | url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/81254-7-miley-cyrus-covers-of-classic-rock-songs-that-the-pop-star-tackled-with-aplomb | accessdate=January 25, 2016}}. The overall topic has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: per  - okay, a list of songs with reliable sources is acceptable ''to a point'' but a 154K page is just taking things too far. May I suggest creating :Category:Classic rock songs instead
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:INDISCRIMINATE)

Comment: Per  Notability guidelines apply to stand alone lists: ''a list is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources''. This list has no references or anything to back it up really
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTESAL)

Comment: to classic rock (restore the redirect that existed for 10+ years). Classic rock is a radio format rather than a well-defined musical genre. It would make sense to have a list of classic rock ''radio stations'', but a list of classic rock ''songs'' would suffer from indiscriminate |selection criteria, since the definition is a moving target depending on each particular station. Songs themselves are not defined as "classic rock" (and :Category:Classic rock songs doesn't exist); songs are pop rock or heavy metal music|heavy metal or rock and roll or punk rock or alternative rock or blues rock or glam metal or arena rock (a few examples of some of the disparate genres that different classic rock radio stations are likely to play). Redirecting users looking for such a list to an article about the concept is most appropriate here, it's better than giving readers nothing at all
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Comment: Unreferenced and synthesised. How anybody could suggest it is useful, I have no idea. Which classic stations? According to who? Why aren't all the songs "rock songs?" With no references there is nothing to save. It fails on , , . If somebody wants to take this to draft and work on it, by all means do, but as it stands, I repeat, delete
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Comment: The nominator has removed the AfD template twice from the article, and has blanked and redirected it to Classic rock. The nominator also closed this discussion. Despite the fact that the nomination has been withdrawn, an outstanding delete !vote from another user is present in the discussion, so this cannot be closed as |speedy keep. See CRIT #1
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Comment: This seems to be a viable topic comparable with list of jazz standards or list of blues standards.  Issues of status or subjectivity should, as usual, be resolved by reference to sources.  These exist – for example, ''The Most Requested Classic Rock Songs''; ''Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All Time''; ''The Girl in the Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics'' – and so the topic passes 
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: This is a redirect to a well-developed article.  It is a sign post to readers, and assists them in finding content.  I agree that the nomination should be withdrawn.  
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