Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hands up (music)


 * 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 merge to Eurodance. As has been suggested in the discussion, the title is quite useless as a search term, so my suggestion would be that the page be tagged for non-controversial deletion per this AfD once the merge has been performed. Vanamonde (talk) 04:19, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Hands up (music)

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Music genre article is a recent creation of editor now blocked re WP:RS issues. Sibling article is also in AfD. On point, this article's four existing citations are not RS. Searches do not seem to demonstrate the nominal topic will meet GNG's bar of "significant coverage." Someone with more category expertise may be able to locate sufficient coverage, but I did not. UW Dawgs (talk) 23:01, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:09, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - no notable Ghits. Doesn't seem to pass WP:GNG nor WP:NMUSIC. Could be a garage band situation. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:14, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Eurodance, at best a pretty obscure sub-genre of Eurodance, but you'll struggle to find reliable sources for it. Black Kite (talk) 23:17, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: fails WP:V. Here is the link to the previous AfD, Articles for deletion/Hands up (music genre), and my reasoning for my deletion vote still stands. I wouldn't even redirect it to Eurodance, as there aren't any reliable sources to link it to that. Richard3120 (talk) 12:14, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge to Eurodance. Though the current sourcing is quite poor, the term is at least verifiable and has at least four explanations (that are mostly overlapping) seen here:    . All these results appeared in a Google News search with such terms as "hands up is" and "hands up genre". Hameltion (talk, contribs) 02:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The problem is whether Eurodance is the correct merger target – it's only mentioned in two of the seven sources you cite, and at least one of those sources is non-RS. One of the other sources calls it a derivative of hardstyle (and so does this German source ), and yet another of the above sources says it's a slowed-down version of happy hardcore. Richard3120 (talk) 22:20, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Redirect/merge or plain delete?

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   19:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:05, 5 September 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Merge? Or delete? A final shout-out
 * Merge per above comments but maybe don't Redirect . A pretty useless search term but the content appears to be verifiable. Redditaddict69  09:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lourdes  22:56, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge, the refs offered above support the claim it is a variation of eurodance unambiguously. Szzuk (talk) 22:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge, consider this style is most popular in Germany (so experts will likely be German and don't frequent English wiki), having a merged version under eurodance will allow more editors to stumble upon/work on the article. HKO2006 (talk) 13:58, 20 September 2018 (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.