Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cult musician

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - no consensus - SimonP 19:19, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Cult musician
Unverifiable list of people somebody thinks are cult musicians (including some strange selections such as Monty Python) &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 05:43, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV unmaintainable list. Megan1967 06:15, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If somebody wants to write a music spinoff of cult following, go for it, but they'd have to individually reconsider each member of this list (Ringo Starr?) and abandon the only full sentence altogether. Samaritan 08:47, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Fairly well compiled list, describes the nature of culthood succinctly and, of those that I happen to know, gives some indisputable examples.  Beefheart, Bonzoes.  Some others (Sweet and Slade, for instance) had massive commercial success, multiple hits, and don't really count. Cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:45, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- and cleanup. - Longhair | Talk 14:55, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: -- See also List of outsider musicians - Longhair | Talk 14:57, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Monty Python and Ringo Starr? Heck, what about Barenaked Ladies? AFAICT, everybody in the U.S. under 35 has at least one of their discs, and I thought they were, like, the National Band of Canada.  Agree delete per Megan1967.  Soundguy99 06:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. -- BD Abram son thi m k 14:46, 2005 May 5 (UTC)
 * Articles like this degenrating into lists is always a bad idea. Inevitably someone comes along and adds their favorite band that either no one or everyone likes, and the whole thing becomes a pile of crap that lists just about every band in existence. An article on this subject could be worthwhile, but not in list form. I imagine there's stuff to be said that hasn't been included in another cult related article. Mentioning a few of the best examples within the text, discouraging ad nauseam additions, could be good. But delete this, or at least the list, and rewrite. -R. fiend 21:53, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Strongly agree with R. Fiend. There's no definition of a cult band &mdash; it's just a band that a small number of people like but isn't generally popular. Could be a long list. &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 06:05, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. R. fiend is correct.  This is entirely subjective.  A good article could be written about cult musicians, but please not another list.  Quale 04:35, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per R.Fiend. Radiant_* 09:42, May 10, 2005 (UTC)


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