Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hip hop groups

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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of hip hop groups[edit]

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Procedural nomination. I just found that this had been arbitrarily redirected to Category:Hip hop groups (which, as a cross-namespace redirect, we're not supposed to do, and given that most bands are diffused by nationality, the category isn't actually functioning as a list anyway.) Given that I then spent 20 minutes moving misfiled entries and deleting individual rappers, redlinks, non-hip hop bands like The Clash (?) and promotional links to the MySpace pages of bands that aren't notable enough to be listed on Wikipedia at all, I can certainly see why the desire to kill this existed — but a cross-namespace redirect isn't the appropriate way to pursue that. We could delete this, or we could impose a "no listing without a reference" rule (though those do tend to be hard to enforce properly on lists.) No !vote from me. Bearcat (talk) 08:35, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as Wikipedia is not a directory. It is just a simple list of groups. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 09:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep - Needs to be retitled to something like List of notable hip hop groups. This is a navigational tool, all blue links, not an effort to create an impossibly-broad universal list. While Wikipedia veterans understand the concept of categories, very many casual users do not and this list has a real function as a navigational tool. Carrite (talk) 15:58, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a standing practice of not using the word "notable" in the titles of list articles; our notability policy already dictates that only notable topics can be included in the list anyway. Bearcat (talk) 18:58, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Perfectly acceptable subject for a list. Could usefully be expanded with further information on each group. e.g. where they're from, active years, etc.--Michig (talk) 16:49, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:CLN. Clear inclusion criteria for a notable topic. And per Michig, no reason why this can't be expanded to include a table for info such as location, years active, etc. Lugnuts (talk) 17:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete list is way too broad. I would support lists on hip hop groups or other music groups meeting notable criteria. Dew Kane (talk) 23:26, 12 September 2010 (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.