Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electro-goth


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Electro-goth

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Recreation of a formerly deleted article. Prods and CSD have been declined in the past for this article so I'm bringing it here. Sub-genre, of a sub-genre, of a sub-genre...  Not sure this has enough coverage to be included in the project. Ridernyc (talk) 00:44, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep provides many references. Article does need expansion and citing. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:19, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ten, and none of of them are really references to the the sub-genre. I see the name a of a couple of albums, Allmusic, and someone mentioning "his own brand of R&B eltrogoth." Ridernyc (talk) 01:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * also after looking closlely many of the hits are hits on the words electro and goth, totally separate from each other. Ridernyc (talk) 01:36, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete No sources. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 03:25, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Besides no sources, the article doesn't really say anything. Just that the word "electro-goth" can be used for various works of music if you want to. (In English you can put just about any two words together and use them however you like.) I wouldn't have expected Goths to feel the need to be validated by an encyclopedia article anyway. Steve Dufour (talk) 05:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep - surely 107,000 ghits is enough to satisfy some people. Admittedly, I normally write it in one word, without the hyphen. It most certainly isn't a neologism either: a Google News search reveals the first usage on Google News dating to 1989 and, as someone who likes electro and was out clubbing in the 80s, I can assure you that it was in use before then. Tris2000 (talk) 10:26, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * if you add "-prince" to the search term you loose 20,000 hit's right off the bat, even without that I dug through 10 pages of hits and could not find a single good source. I found podcasts, electrogoth wallpapers, torrents, nothing that would satisfy WP:RS, nothing to justify this having it's own article. After all this reading I still have no clear picture of what is unique about electrogoth. Even last.fm which shows up as a hit says the following "We don't have a description for this tag yet." It also seems that every band listed as electrogothic, is also darkwave, gothic, industrial, gothic metal, gothic rock, and on and on... Seems all these terms have no real definition. Ridernyc (talk) 11:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If the article is about the word then it should be moved to Wiki-dictionary.Steve Dufour (talk) 15:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete for lack of reliable sources providing in-depth discussion. Drmies (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's a neologism for an undefined (nonexistent?) genre. Listen to Blutengel, listen to Collide and listen to Clan of Xymox. There's no stylistic similarity between the bands. --Chontamenti (talk) 08:34, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  — Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 06:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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