Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs featuring cowbells

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The result of the debate was Needs more cowbell. (Keep) Golbez 19:58, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

List of songs featuring cowbells

No no NO! --Conti|✉ 21:54, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, since it shows the variety of use of this distinctive instrument. Failing that merge with Cowbell. Kappa 22:05, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep "Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription... is more cowbell." Naturally a List of songs featuring cowbells is useful and informative to me.Klonimus 02:45, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Cowbell (which, incidentally, has one of the most annoying animated GIFs I've ever seen...) ESkog 22:17, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
• Clear Keep. The kind of encyclopedic, useful reference Wikipedia does best. "No no no" is not a valid reason for deletion, btw. Jgm 01:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • "No no NO!" is merely the natural horror at seeing this article, not a reason. --Calton | Talk 02:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
    • LOL. Radiant_* 09:44, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
• No vote at the moment. If we keep, does it follow that we'd have to allow similar lists for other instruments? It would be bizarrely unuseful to have a List of songs featuring drums, since that would be really close to every song ever; however, cowbells are much less common and therefore remarkable (in other words, notable). On the other hand, cowbells are indeed a part of go go music, and, according to our articles, are also common in Latin and West African music, so I bet there's a large number of songs (even if it were restricted to recorded popular music) that could, theoretically, be on this list too. Tuf-Kat 01:55, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • A list like this is only useful if it's limited in some way, so if every go go song has them, it should just mention that fact and maybe one or two salient examples. Kappa 02:00, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. We've got lists of radio towers and lists of stamps with people's faces on them. At least this one makes me laugh. ---Isaac R 02:19, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge content into Cowbell and delete the list. And I find the GIF amusing ("Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription... is more cowbell"). --Calton | Talk 02:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Cowbell. Megan1967 03:55, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, useless list. --Angr/_comhrá 06:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, useless (List of songs featuring guitars, anyone?). Wouldn't oppose a merge though. Radiant_* 09:44, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, concurring with Kappa's limitation above. Samaritan 12:54, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge content into cowbell, no redirect. Uncompletable list without any real significance established (none even suggested in the article). Barno 17:24, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or at the very least merge.-PlasmaDragon 22:00, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Yay, Wikipedia!!! -- BDAbramson ^thimk 22:21, 2005 May 11 (UTC)
• Keep. Harmless article, though it should be cross-referenced somewhere if it isn't already. I just added a title, myself. As an instrument, a cowbell is unusual enough that this article is unlikely to become too far ranging (as opposed to one about guitars, for example). 23skidoo 04:14, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and consider adding to WP:UA (WP:UL?). —RaD Man (talk) 13:51, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
• Preposterous. Unlikely to be of use to anyone. Makes people who think of Wikipedia as a serious reference work very nervous. Yet another useless list. Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. However, keep. Wiki is not paper. If not us, who? JRM · Talk 22:35, 2005 May 12 (UTC)
• Keep, this is what makes Wikipedia Wikipedia. Philthecow 22:37, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to cowbell. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 04:28, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to cowbell.--Prem 02:58, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP - but the name has to be changed. the word FEATURING implies that it is the main feature of the song - like the game, featuring 50 cent - or nelly, featuring tim mcgraw. i suggest List of songs containing cowbells or something like that. Kingturtle 20:00, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Granted, as the creator of the list I am biased, but I thought it relevant in, as is mentioned above, the various styles of music to which the instrument has been applied. I find the "domino threat" of list of songs with drums or list of songs with guitar to be a little over-the-top. Those instruments are so integral to popular music that it would be more realistic (though still, overall, unrealistic) to make a list of songs lacking drums or list of songs lacking guitar. The cowbell remains, however, an instrument suitably rare enough in the medium of popular music to warrant a list on Wikipedia; even if that list is not ever going to be fully comprehensive. We must not forget that Wikipedia is a free source for people who find other encyclopedias, online or off-, to be lacking in some way. If this list would help just one student at a conservatory write a paper on the use of such an a-melodic instrument as the cowbell, without hindering anyone who would not have such an interest -- then keep it. I would not, however, be opposed to a Merge with Cowbell, in principle; I fear, though, that this list would make that entry unwieldy and would still be scrapped in the future. Benn M. 16:31, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
  • A further note: I have put a more detailed and fleshed-out articulation of my position on the article's talk page. Benn M. 16:48, 2005 May 16 (UTC)

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