Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of unrecorded operas

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The result was delete. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 00:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of unrecorded operas

First, the purpose of this list is not clear. Will it be used by record-company executives looking for operas to record? I think not. Second, thousands of operas have been created since 1600, and most of them have been forgotten. A comprehensive list of unrecorded operas is therefore a) difficult to achieve and b) likely to be very long indeed. Third, few editors have added operas to this list, and discussion at the WP Opera Project has not revealed much, if any, enthusiasm for perpetuating the list, especially as there is still much to do elsewhere. GuillaumeTell 18:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There are so many possible candidates for this list that it fails WP:NOT ("not an indiscriminate collection of information"). The vast majority of operas in existence have never been recorded. As it is, the list is a bare catalogue of random names. Unmaintainable and a cruft magnet. --Folantin 19:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - unmaintainable and almost potentially infinite. Perhaps only 1 per cent - if that - of thousands of operas written throughout history have ever been recorded, and as it is the list doesn't come even close to being halfway complete. Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 19:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as per comments above. Kleinzach 22:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an almost nonsensical subject. -- Chairman S. Talk ^Contribs 00:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete as an unmaintainable list. Niffweed17, Destroyer of Chickens 03:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Pavel Vozenilek 11:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. DrGeoduck 02:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.