Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs with personal names: A
As a matter of fair disclosure, I was the nominator of the previous AFD. The supporters of this list have claimed any number of benefits to its presence. Unfortunately, these claims are not supported by policy or the current content. The idea that this list could, for example, demonstrate the "value ... in the comparison of names that appear in songs across eras, for example, as indicators of the popularity and longevity of first names" is implausible with the current state of the list, which has no dates, no context, no information at all except for a long enumeration of songs and their authors, sorted into a novel order. During the previous debate, I forwarded a 6-month timeframe before ''I'' would renominate this content for deletion as |indescriminate and without context. But as this has been independently nominated, I see no real reason to wait; even were this list reformatted or re-envisioned to allow cross-cultural comparison, or an alternative organizational structure to access information about people, or any of the other ideas raised during this or previous AFDs, it would be a |novel synthesis of information. Wikipedia is (within its limits) meant to be comprehensive ... but it is meant to be a |comprehensive encyclopedia. No |appropriate sources have been forwarded to show that anyone other than a few editors here has considered this information in this way, and even though some comments here show a distate for the policies involved, "|original research" is the opposite of "encyclopedia
— User:Serpent, 14:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:SYN||WP:ENC||WP:RS||WP:OR (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)