Okay. People are actively editing [[List of songs
whose title does not
appear in their lyrics]]. Four or five people have assured me I am a rotten
git for daring to question the necessity of this article, but I can't help
it. I think the fact that people created, discussed, and edited this article
is just wrong. Even worse, people I respect (e.g. Tannin and Tarquin) are
working on this article.
Of course, we should have some criterion of usefulness, in addition to the
simple requirement of verifiability. However, it is much harder to
determine usefulness than verifiability. In the case of weird lists like
this one, I'd like to hear a convincing argument who might want to look it
up and why. If the answer is just the entertainment value, then I am
inclined to be skeptical about the need for the list's existence.
Ironically, I can see a more plausible argument for a "List of left-handed
US presidents" than one for this list, left-handedness being a phenomenon
that has long been claimed (not sure if this is still the case) to be
related to creativity.
I also agree with Cunctator that extracting this kind of data
automatically is obviously a better solution than typing it by hand. Once
again, in my category scheme, you would just write
[[Category:Left handed]]
below an article about a person, and when clicking that category, you
would get a list of other persons in the same category. You could also
have
[[Category:President]]
and could then do a query on pages which are in both categories. Same with
[[Category:Drink]] and [[Category:Banana-based food]].
Regards,
Erik