Talk:Music of South Carolina

List of bands inclusion criteria
In general, Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate lists. We do not, for example, have a "List of people from New York City" that includes random non-notable people. Instead, List of people from New York City is limited to bluelink notable people from New York City.

By the same token, there is nothing encyclopedic about a list of bands from South Carolina that includes notable bands and a random selection of the tens of thousands of bands that have existed in the state over the past 230 years. We do not include the West Podunk high School Marching Band or that annoying garage band your neighbor's son has been trying to get going for the past 3 months.

This list, as with all lists on Wikipedia, requires objective, verifiable selection criteria. The applicable guideline suggests three common criteria: 1) "Every entry meets the notability criteria for its own non-redirect article in the English Wikipedia." This is blue link notability, used in thousands of similar lists. 2) "Every entry in the list fails the notability criteria." This is generally used for limited membership groups as an adjunct to other articles. The example given is List of Dilbert characters: Dilbert, the pointy-haired boss and a few others are individually notable, but there is encyclopedic information on the remaining characters as well. This obviously would not work for the tens of thousands of non-notable bands in the state's history. 3) "Short, complete lists of every item that is verifiably a member of the group." If we are going to have a list of the mayors of Key West, Florida, we are going to list all of them. There is, of course, no way that we could possibly list every band that has ever existed in South Carolina (and we wouldn't want to, if we could).

IMO, blue link notability is the obvious choice. It is simple, objective and verifiable. Opinions? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 14:55, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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