Talk:List of songs recorded by Stateless

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Concerning a recent request for deletion[edit]

As far as I can tell there are no official rules or regulations on when an artist can have a 'list of songs'-page. Not in the music projects, nor the discography projects - at least to my knowledge since I last checked some time ago.
Stateless (band) have two albums and one EP but because of a lot of trouble they had with labels and stuff, several songs got rereleased from old singles and their ep on their debut album etc. They do not have a straightforward discography and for people new to them this could be quite confusing (as it was to me).
They are about to relase an extra ep with new material in May and thus extra songs that need to be listed as the EP might not be notable enough to merit it's own page or is likely never to progress from the eternal stubb-status and there is no room for tracklists in the main Stateless article. I felt there was a need for a list of songs, and I strongly believe there still is one.
There are plenty of bands with "list of songs" that even only have 1 album, for example List of Beady Eye songs among others, or even bands with a very straightforward discography.
I don't see any harm in having this article even if Stateless aren't the biggest band around. I'm really sick of the mentality that lesser known artists shouldn't have a very well documented wiki entry just because a lot of the bigger more and important bands have limited, highly incomplete or very amateurish entries.
Just because they NOW only have two albums is no reason whatsoever to have it deleted. You have to give articles time to grow. It's a list-class for god's sake! I want a better wikipedia for everyone, and this is the reason why so few people actually dare to edit or make pages. Even if they put REALLY a lot of effort in it, chances are very high some vigilante beats them down before they even properly started. I've been an editor for more than 5 years now and I really do my best to be very cautious and all, but come on, give articles time to develop for years to come. This article does no harm to anyone and is only meant to be a bit more exhaustive.

I just don't see why this article should REALLY be deleted besides some sort of unneccesary strictness, the article by no means lacks effort nor is it unneeded or unneccesary. Thank you. H14 (talk) 22:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]