Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dead rappers


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was  dead : delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Dead rappers

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Here we have a list of dead rappers (obviously). Normally, I'm apprehensive about AFDing recently-created articles...however, almost all the content here is copied and pasted from the various articles from them (a violation of the GFDL), and what isn't is unsourced and possibly unattributable. There's nothing to be merged since all the information is either unsourced or copied verbatim. Core desat 00:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Aside from that dead rappers aren't much fun, this is really something that's better handled by a category.  All of these rappers have their information on how they died, for the most part, in their own articles, so we're better linking them in a category and leaving each article to handle it. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 00:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - Per Dennis. Better suited as category.-- Bryson { Talk } { Edits } 01:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete OMG, it's another article about dead people, but I don't mean Plato and Philo. Yeah, make it a category, or just delete it altogether because it's a bad article. YechielMan 02:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and create a category, such as "deceased rappers" or the like. Sr13 (T|C) 03:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and make a category, at best. Goodnightmush  Talk 03:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and no category - we do not categorize people on the basis of whether they are living or dead (with the exception of Category:Living people which as I understand it maintained for WP:BLP reasons) and in fact have already deleted a dead rappers category once. Otto4711 03:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, and make a category - how about "murdered rappers"? Steve 03:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; and there's already a potential category - Category:Assassinated American people. Or Category:American murder victims which is more general. Pufnstuf 05:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not all of them died because they were murdered and not all rappers are American. - Mgm|(talk) 12:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. If it can be rewritten in something similar to List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death it would be a useful annotated list. A category is acceptable too. - Mgm|(talk) 12:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The difference here is that there's clear-cut criteria for monarchs of the British Isles, making for a short list that won't be getting much bigger in the forseeable future. However, "rappers" could include any person who enters a freestyle competition and thinks he/she is notable enough for a WP bio and associated links. Hell, even Rodney Dangerfield could make this list, and he gets no respect! Can you imagine how cluttered and unmaintainable this article will be once it's been in circulation for a few months? And where's Left Eye? Easy E? Caknuck 18:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorise. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 13:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and turn it into an article on the unusually high occurance of murders of rappers - i.e. rename and get rid of the car accidents and other non-murder deaths. Someday rappers will start dying of old age, and we'll no more want a special article on them then on dead composers or dead reformation authors. Cheers! bd2412  T 14:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing WP:NOT. No need to categorize either, doing so would be overcategorization.  Ar ky an  &#149; (talk) 15:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and no category per Otto.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Coredesat. Category would be acceptable if it served a more specific purpose, such as "Category:Murdered Rappers". Maybe. --Moralis (talk) 18:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are plenty of dead rappers other than these.  Virtual Cowboy 18:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per my arguement above. Caknuck 18:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and turn into a category, if this doesn't exist yet. Poeloq 18:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't believe that WP needs a list of dead Rappers, Rock Stars, Celebrity Chefs, supermodels or anything of the like. My initial thought was also to go the category route, but agree with Otto4711 -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 20:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. I wouldn't have a problem with a category, as the death by violence of rappers and their associates has been covered in enough independent news sources to be considered notable.  But I don't care enough to actually create such a category. -FisherQueen (Talk) 20:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Make a catagory, though. - Hmwith 00:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - A category for "Rappers killed through human violence" or similar may be passable.-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 16:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP is not an indiscriminate collection of information, especially when the parameters are so loose. Fishhead64 17:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and all above.  Jody B   00:35, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Cocept is too broad. Otherwise we could end up with List of all dead people. Murdered Rappers might be acceptable, as that's a bit more specific. A1octopus 00:39, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.