Actually our notability guidelines foster bad music articles. "Songs that have been ranked on national or significant music charts, that have won significant awards or honors or that have been performed independently by several notable artists, bands or groups are probably notable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28music%29#Albums.2C_singles_and_songs
As a result we get thousands of articles which are basically nothing more than laundry lists of chart placements and recordings, usually unreferenced but occasionally with minimal referencing. A few from 1955 (randomly chosen year). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Boom_Boomerang_%28song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croce_di_Oro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamboat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fool_for_You http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Get_%28song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Important_Can_It_Be%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Guess_I%27m_Crazy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Just_Found_Out_About_Love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_Samantha Systematic cleanup is nearly impossible because my time tends to get eaten up with the real basics when I do sweeps. These articles are magnets for copyright violations, for instance. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Wee_Small_Hours_of_the_Morning&diff=345538182&oldid=341758494 -Durova On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Ken Arromdee wrote: > > > > I never understood, why does notability require a reliable source anyway? > > > Doesn't - urban myth put about by people with a kindergarten version of > logical positivism. But no reliable sources means nothing can actually > be said in an article that has any content. "X is famous for being > famous" - we get round to deleting articles like that. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
