Deletion of List of songs about Rainbows

Comment: per  - after all: "Why are there ''so many'' songs about rainbows
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: There are plenty of sources which talk about songs about rainbows and it wasn't hard to find one which lists them systematically &mdash; ''http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zVSXQgAACAAJ The Green Book'' lists 40 songs about rainbows.  The topic therefore satisfies 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: Does not come anywhere near notability. None of the three "keep" editors has provided any reason that stands up to study in line with Wikipedia's inclusion guidelines. The linking to other list articles by Billdanbury (the author of the article) is irrelevant, both for the reason given at  (the other articles may deserve deletion too), and because they may perhaps have features which make them more appropriate than this one: merely pointing to the fact that they exist does not establish that they are on the same level as this article. Colonel Warden suggests that the list satisfies , but it doesn't. That guideline says "A list topic is considered notable if it has been '''''discussed''''' as a group or set by independent reliable sources" (my emphasis) not "if you can manage to find a catalogue somewhere that gives another '''''mere listing''''' on the same topic". Northamerica1000 does not give any new reason at all, but just refers back to the two other "keeps
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFF||WP:LISTN)

Comment: Research on other "List of songs about X" provided some of the following titles: List of songs about photography, List of train songs, List of car crash songs, List of songs about school... What makes a topic for list notable anyway (:Category:Lists of songs and :Category:Lists of songs about a topic)? I found limited instructions in the Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Lists|commons for this subject, so I was old|Bold
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Bots (WP:B)

Comment: even if individual songs are notable, as songs or symbols, the list itself is both non-notable and |original research
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: per .  Non-encyclopedic cross-categorization.  The intersection of music and rainbows has not been shown to be a culturally significant phenomenon, or anything more profound than a simple coincidence that in all of the billions of songs ever written, some of them happen to mention rainbows
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTDIR)