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52:. I have had to read the arguments individually and carefully, and those without policy-based arguments are truly unhelpful on this one, and unfortunately easily discounted. One also has to include "REALITY". While the topic of Australian influence on UK music might be a good idea, this list does ot address that, nor is it useful nor indivcative of anything. It's therefore 297:, which recommends using lists to classify and sub-categorize items. You also state it "borders on listcruft", which suggests to me that you don't think it actually is listcruft, and the individual entries are notable by the music notability guidelines, so your only argument seems to be that classifying singles by nationality isn't useful. -- 977:
Hmm, who says the Bee Gees are British, Australian and American? You? Themselves? Passport Control? None of that really addresses Tarc's point thoughĀ : "Something that backs up the assertion that Australian singers are especially notable in the UK might help for starters.". Why are Australian singers
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isn't grounds for deletion. Lists of number one singles are notable because number one singles are notable, and classifying things by nationality is exceedingly common (Knowledge has numerous categories for musical acts, etc, by nationality). My argument was not "other stuff exists", it was that
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Notability of the items does count, per the guidelines I cited above. This is not the place for teaching you our lists-related guidelines (you should know them before coming here and vote). Read them, so you could provide a more solid, policy-based argument for deletion, other than
661:? There is no special distinction of artists from one country reaching #1 in another country, not enough to do in list form anyways. If the artist or song itself is notable, then the information on their chart status would be better served by categorizing their article via 907:
1) The page is unlikely to be something linked by many articles or typed in via a google search. Where might you link the page from? I might look for individual entries in the list, but I would never think of looking for this specific list. Aside from a brief
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Further, your vote appears to have absolutely no significance in relation to the discussion in question ā€” what does "Australians having a long impact in British impact in chart music" have anything to do with the fact that this is a trivial list?
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arguments why the page should stay. If you can't do that without hiding behind bureaucracy and procedures, it's probably a good indication there might be merit in the opposing point of view. I'll repeat my counter
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is. Your vague hand-wave at "its notable cause I say so" doesn't help matters any either. Something that backs up the assertion that Australian singers are especially notable in the UK might help for starters.
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My replies: 1) No one of our guidelines says anything about Google searches or WP searches. Orphan articles are allowed, and anyway here we are talking about one that is linked by many other articles
929:- also born in the UK, representing that county in the Eurovision Song Contest, and having most of his hitmaking career there. What do the subjects of the articles consider their nationality to be? -- 193: 160: 758:. Just because individual entries are notable, it does not mean the list is. Also, just because something is an essay, it does not mean the content in it is without merit. Can you justify 154: 315:. Also your statements; "My argument was not "other stuff exists" and "Knowledge has numerous categories for musical acts, etc, by nationality" are contradicting each other, by far. 953: 658: 150: 1008: 97: 200: 89: 81: 438:
That's impossible because the list is too long to put in a sortable table with nationality one of the sorting criteria. Having a separate list is the best alternative. --
242: 332: 133: 166: 238: 685: 376: 354: 424:, interesting, but I believe it's over-listification really. Ideally the nationality information would be included on a master list of all #1 UK singles. 580:
I find it offensive how somebody would ask someone else to to read up about deletion when they have been doing it for a whole year. How about next time
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can be, "The list is of interest to a very limited number of people", which I believe this list is not. I think it's a "valuable information source."
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Honestly, the WP:BEFORE handwaving is getting rather tiring and it borders on being considered an insult, much the same as as "learn to read or
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the list meets the criteria you specified above - as it still sounds like "it's notable because I say so". PS: Some might disagree that the
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this data is stored in lists indexed in other ways, and indexing it by nationality is beneficial. This is entirely in accordance with
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Could you explain why why it follows the rules of notability? Don't just point to policy and say "because I said so" (
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I can't imagine anyone is going to explicitly look for these search terms - it's far too narrow a set of criteria. --
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period circa 1988, I don't recall a notable trend of Australian artists reaching the top of the charts in the UK.
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requirements. Every item of the list is notable. The belonging of every item to this list is easily verifiable.
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is just an essay, not a policy nor a guideline, and that said no one has argumented in what this list is
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Really... It doesn't seem apparent to me that anything in my rationale for deletion was in relation to
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are Australian given they weren't born there and have spent more time living in the UK and the US. --
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But you ignored the rest of their rationale, which says "...it's far too narrow a set of criteria".
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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List of singles by Portuguese artists that reached number one on the Icelandic Singles Chart
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List of singles by British artists that reached number one on the Australian Singles Chart
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I wont insult your itelligence by explaining it to you, as you might find it "offensive".
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List of singles by Australian artists that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
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List of singles by Australian artists that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
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List of singles by European artists that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
56:, and unusable/unworkable. The consensus of the policy-based arguments is delete ( 485:'Interesting' does not justify a reason to have the list. Your vote appears to be 127: 245:, etc. One of the guidelines for good lists is that they should be categorized: 690: 294: 246: 584:
address the issue being presented, and not the editor in question. Kthanksbye.
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Australian artists have had a long impact in British chart music. Please read
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to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
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I can't imagine anyone is going to explicitly look for these search terms
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List of British artists that reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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points out, there are plenty of similar lists. (yeah, i know,
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which will include most of the entries in this list. --
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mentions lists "grouped by theme" as a good thing. --
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hayyyyya I point my shadowless fists of death at you
537:Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 43:). No further edits should be made to this page. 1042:). No further edits should be made to this page. 952:and that last month was visited about 300 times 467:). I think it's an interesting list that avoids 333:list of Australia-related deletion discussions 270:is not a valid reason for keeping an article. 239:List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones 921:2) The content is highly subjective - do the 199: 8: 663:Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles 375:Note: This debate has been included in the 353:Note: This debate has been included in the 331:Note: This debate has been included in the 377:list of Lists-related deletion discussions 374: 355:list of Music-related deletion discussions 352: 330: 684:This is crazy. Might as well also create 233:It's a complement to other lists like 7: 235:List of UK Singles Chart number ones 500:I mention it being interesting as 209:I think this list is bordering on 24: 1007:. Just in case somebody creates 978:especially notable in the UK? -- 846:? 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