Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/God Defend New Zealand


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

God Defend New Zealand
I agree with, the last person to edit this page, that this quote of one verse from one of New Zealand's national anthems doesn't belong here. This article started out under the current title, and was moved to New Zealand by our absent colleague in an apparent attempt to jump-start a theme article about the country. It didn't work, and Brian New Zealand moved it back. As the full text is available in the WP article about it, I don't see much need for the excerpt here, unless someone can explain why this particular fragement of it is notable. 121a0012 02:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). I've merged the lyrics excerpt into Lyrics as I suggested. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete after transferring excerpt to Lyrics. (As always, we should get a source for it, too.) This is another variation on a common theme here: creative-work articles that can only be stubs or copyvios. Most of these can be moved or have their content copied to people articles. However, I suspect finding the author(s) of the lyrics in this case and moving the article to this person (people?) would only give us a permanent people stub. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:35, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: there's no copyvio here as the English lyrics have been in the public domain for more than fifty years. (This is all explained in the WP article, which includes the complete text.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 121a0012 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 21 October 2006  (UTC)  ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 05:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


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