Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Christian hardcore punk & metalcore bands


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The result was delete. Bduke (talk) 10:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

List of Christian hardcore punk &amp; metalcore bands

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The list is full of non-notable bands and it's only for Christian bands in minor subgenres of heavy metal and punk, it's hardly essential. And its content is already covered in Category:Christian hardcore and Category:Christian metal groups. Funeral 14:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep An obvious target of spam for non-notable bands as any band list would be, but about half the links are blue so I'd say keep but clean it up TheBilly (talk) 14:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment These are small subgenres within rock music. And these subgenres are already covered in other lists - List of Christian punk bands and the list of Christian metal bands, as well as the better-suited-for-this-kind-of-thing categories I mentioned above. And hardcore punk and metalcore are different styles of music, making this list is like making a List of Christian pop rock and death metal groups. This list just isn't useful or needed. Funeral 14:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * My assumption was that the two were thrown together in the same list because there's so little in each, and because they're not entirely unrelated. Christian music isn't exactly known for being "exxxxtreme", and since this is a list and not an article, there isn't a strict requirement on this sort of precise categorization. Even if I thought there should be, that would only lead me to argue for a split, not a delete. As far as the "minor subgenres" argument goes: So? If there's agreement that the subgenre actually exists and is active, then let's write about it and classify using it TheBilly (talk) 15:20, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * "Christian music isn't exactly known for being 'exxxxtreme'" - Sorry, but can you clarify that statement for me please? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Funeral 15:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Funeral. Mr Senseless (talk) 14:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is better off at List of Christian punk bands and List of Christian metal bands respectively, and if those lists become too long (too long with bluelinks, that is- the redlinks have to go anyway) then they can be split off to more specific genres as appropriate at the time. However, as Funeral says, this is a pretty stupid list anyway, as hardcore punk and metalcore are distinct. J Milburn (talk) 17:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - the lists can be merged into other lists as appropriate. One comment on nominator's rationale: a list is not a substitute for a category and vice versa, per WP:CLS. --Lquilter (talk) 01:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree that other lists exist that essentially make this redundant. -- neon white user page talk 03:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 05:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Punkmorten (talk) 06:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable intersection of subgenres. Terraxos (talk) 01:06, 14 January 2008 (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.