Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Film Score Metal


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The result was delete. —Doug Bell talk 13:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Film Score Metal

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Not a musical genre, and even if it is, it is not notable since apparently only Rhapsody of Fire is generally considered film score metal.

Yes, the term exists, as it gets 10900 GHits. However, if you were to do a search that excludes "rhapsody", you would only get 288 GHits.

If each band in the world was to invent their own metal subgenre and we were to do an article per subgenre, we are going to have a lot of trouble listing all of those! A musical genre is not a genre if it only includes two or three bands!

Zouavman Le Zouave (Talk to me! • O)))) 19:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to Rhapsody of Fire, since this term is used only to describe them. --Hyperbole 20:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly redirect per above. A genre according to the supposed pioneers themselves, Rhapsody (of Fire), but not according to any reliable sources. As a term, it does not meet WP:V or WP:N, as it lacks non-trivial coverage. Prolog 20:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge & redicert to Rhapsody of Fire--Neo139 23:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Perhaps could be redirected to Rhapsody of Fire, or even symphonic power metal, which links to the subheading of it under symphonic metal; not sure about policy with redirects, so perhaps just to Rhapsody (of Fire). I agree with the nominator, as said genre isn't a genre. I think of the term as in "metal, used in a film score" not "metal that sounds like a film score". As the examples given on the page, it makes the word genre entirely useless, as there is hardly any cohesion between examples listed, other than they seem like they are. --Dane ~nya 02:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * delete per Dane Spearhead 22:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above, but also there is more than a hint of original research about this, per "Other artists have produced works that are potentially 'Film Score Metal'" [emphasis added], and the give-away "Perhaps in practical use..." before that. Also the sources are 1. an essay; 2. a (respected) genre-specific encyclopaedia which merely says "The genre description says “Film Score Metal” and why not?" [emphasis added], intimating that, in fact, it is not a recognised sub-genre. Other sources cited are LastFM, where anyone can tag anything as any genre they feel fit, whether it's right or not. And all references do, indeed, trail back to the one band. No, it doesn't convince me. Bubba hotep 22:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, and by the way, once the OR and supposition has been removed, there won't be much left to merge and redirecting would actually be tantamount (I stole that word from the article) to recognising it as a genre. Bubba hotep 22:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - doesn't appear to be a real genre. Perhaps there could be a category that has a similar name, that certain songs can be put in if they appeared in a film. I know this wasn't what the article was about, but could have something like that.   Asics   talk  20:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
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