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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs about Montreal[edit]

List of songs about Montreal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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WP:IINFO. Full of WP:OR due to an utter lack of sourcing. No other province or territory of Canada has its own list of songs about it. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:52, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:52, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:52, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:59, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:00, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete One of the "sources" used is already a list of these songs, I don't see the value in duplicating it here. Oaktree b (talk) 16:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Oaktree b. --Vaco98 (talk) 16:59, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - It's interesting local trivia but per WP:IINFO, Wikipedia is not for lists of trivia. Note that source #3 is an article that lists songs by musicians who are from Montreal but few of the songs therein are about the city itself. A quick-spot check of this WP article reveals that many of the songs listed (except for those literally titled "Montreal" and the like) only name-drop the city and are not about it as the article title implies. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 23:34, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:10, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Category:Lists of songs about a city has a lot of list like this. Those I clicked on don't have references either so I just exported their most recent versions to https://list.fandom.com/ in case anyone is interested in finding that information. Some might be interested in what songs were written about their city. Dream Focus 05:05, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To reiterate something I noticed for this Montreal article, many of the list articles in that category are badly polluted with entries that only mention the city briefly, and only a portion of the entries are about the city. The word about has been stretched quite badly throughout Wikipedia for pretty insignificant trivia purposes. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:05, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as WP:INDISCRIMINATE. SBKSPP (talk) 01:25, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The sole reference discussing songs about Montreal is a self-published blog. MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:36, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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