Talk:LA style Lindy Hop

Notable lindy hop style
Is this really a notable style of lindy hop? While Hollywood-style and Savoy-style are widely recognized styles of lindy hop that are done all around the globe (with their own variations), I've never heard of LA style, and I doubt that it is a widely-taught style of lindy hop. Each lindy hop scene tends to have its own style of doing the dance, but they don't merit articles in a general interest encyclopedia. The fact that very little content has been added to this article since its inception give me more reason to think that there is not enough about it for it to exist. Unless someone can provide a good reason for keeping this article, I am going to suggest that we delete it. --Cswrye 07:18, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Your ignorance in some areas is not the reason for deletion. I strongly suggest you to write about things you know, not abot you don't know. The term is mentioned in the internet and people have right to know what it is. If you see problem with the text, it may be pointless to ask in wikipedia; ask live people out of your state.
 * That said, I do agree that the article looks poor. `'mikka (t) 08:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * My question is essential whether or not this article statisfies the criteria for notability; I believe it does not, and it is not because of my ignorance. Some topics just do not have enough content or are not important enough to merit their own articles. If Wikipedia were a dance encyclopedia, I could see keeping this topic, but as a general interest encyclopedia, it is not Wikipedia's purpose to list every variation of lindy hop imaginable. Perhaps I am wrong and this is a more widely recognized style than I thought, and I just have not heard of it. If that is the case, I would hope that someone well-versed in lindy hop (such as PlainJane) would point that out. That is why I put this up as a discussion. In any case, the fact that this article has hardly been edited in the past four years and still has no references still makes me think that there is too little content on the topic for it to merit existence.
 * Actually, rather than deleting this article, perhaps it is more appropriate for it to be merged with Hollywood-style lindy hop. That way, its content could still be on Wikipedia. --Cswrye 18:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

What's wrong with listing "every variation of lindy hop imaginable"? The ***BIG!!!*** problem with dances is that their history is lost and not that it that it floods all over encyclopedias so that you would wish to tear pages out of books and throw them away. You write about yourself you are a lindy fan, yet you show an attitude that doesn't match your claim. So many things were forgotten because all think they are insignificant for record. By the way, how many lindy variations you can name? So that you are afraid to overcrowd wikipedia with them? Not to say that Wikipedia is not paper. `'mikka (t) 18:32, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to put this up for deletion or merging if no one else agrees, but I stand by my belief that this is merely a less common alternate name for Hollywood-style lindy hop, not a different style. It's worth noting that many of the sites that come up on Google (such as this one) state that LA-style is the same thing as Hollywood-style, and the Wikipedia article for Hollywood style says that as well towards the end. --Cswrye 14:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Months too late as usual, I support a merge into Hollywood-style Lindy Hop. After a concerted online search (which 95% of the time gets me back to text from Wikipedia), I can only find these styles listed together (i.e. "Hollywood/LA"). The spoken consensus of people I've talked with (inside and outside my state) suggest that LA-style is a minor variation of Hollywood-style. I think it will be very easy to incorporate this text into Hollywood-style while maintaining that possible distinction - it could even have its own section. However, at the moment it seems very difficult to get LA-style out of even stub status without duplicating the (admittedly non-existent) background, history, and development of Hollywood-style.--Will.i.am 05:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll put a merge tag on this article and see if any additional discussion arises from it. —Cswrye 14:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No one else has commented on this yet. I'll probably give it another week, and if there's no dissention, I'll go ahead with the merge. —Cswrye 17:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Since there was no additional discussion, I went ahead with the merge. If anyone disagrees with the merge, Feel free to continue the discussion. —Cswrye 18:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)