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Proposed deletion of Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time

The article Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This is a list that a) already exists elsewhere online, and b) implies that is the "definitive" Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time -- a falsity. No reason to include this list on-wiki -- practically just a big ad for "Nature's Best" -- an external link is fine.

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Fair call on the name being inappropriate, could change that to be related to Nature's Best. The problem is that there is no place online that officially has it (I'll be damned if I can find it on APRA, the only two listings are a personal blog and a Christchurch library!). It's frequently referred to in relation to songs as well, which makes checking difficult (e.g. how do you tell a song was voted #33 when the track listing on Nature's Best 2 here starts from 1 again? Or what of interviewers saying that Dave Dobbyn contributed to 10% of the list?) I could merge it in with the main article, but need to figure out how to do it best. The list is separate from the CDs as far as I know.

Vickytnz (talk) 23:24, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hm - so if it's not online, where might you have found it? Theo polisme 23:28, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was available on the DVD release (not quite sure how to cite it), and has been put up by the Christchurch library on their site and one person on their own personal site, but not in any format that's of any real use. You can mash it together from the listings of the 3 CDs as well, but it's not easy. I could drop it at the bottom of the main article, but the Top 100 vote does exist independently of the CDs. Vickytnz (talk) 23:33, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm off to dinner now - will be back with some insightful commentary momentarily. Theo polisme 23:34, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. The primary issue is that the Nature's Best page, for all it says about the 100 songs, never actually says what they are or links to anything with it (none of the citations have anything, for the reasons I gave above)! That was why I set the list up. Vickytnz (talk) 23:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could I make the article the APRA 100 New Zealand Songs of all Time, move some of the information from the selection process over to that, and then allow Nature's Best to be a more pure description of the album? Vickytnz (talk) 23:45, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please rename the article to APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs, I've found an Australian equivalent on the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APRA_Top_30_Australian_songs so it makes sense to align it with that. Vickytnz (talk) 00:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and I've changed the copy to be more about the voting and made the list less obviously Nature's Best! Vickytnz (talk) 01:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good work! Let me know if there's ever anything else I can help with. Theo polisme 21:39, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, done it :) I've removed the deletion notice as I believe I've addressed it (though obv if you check and feel it's not the case then flag it). Vickytnz (talk) 01:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Vickytnz. I saw your comment over at the Ada Lovelace Day page and wanted to point you to Victorian Honour Roll of Women which has a number of engineers and scientists. Cheers, Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 14:10, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, will do a bit of work on the Jeremijenko page (needs it anyhow) and then look at those. Will have to investigate as to whether there's an NZ equivalent! Vickytnz (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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