Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of blue-eyed soul artists (2nd nomination)


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The result was   no consensus. JodyBtalk 21:18, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

List of blue-eyed soul artists
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I've been looking over this article (and its history) and have come to the conclusion that it is an unmaintainable and only sporadically sourceable list. The term refers to Caucasians that perform soul and actual R&B, not the Mariah Carey/Beyonce stuff. Editors that aren't aware of the ambiguity in the term "R&B" keep adding artists like Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. I wouldn't be surprised if Vanilla Ice has been put in and take out a few times. The artists that I agree actually belong on the list tend to be WP:OR violations. There aren't sources provided that say the artist is considered blue-eyed soul, and, since the term has fallen out of general use, sources that actually use the term to describe artists are few and far between. &mdash;Kww(talk) 16:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:09, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Undecided for now. Clearly Blue-eyed soul is a recognized musical concept, but this list has no sources whatsoever. If the list is revised to include a citation to a reliable independent source for every artist listed to associate them with blue-eyed soul, and the artists for whom no such citations can be found are removed from the list, the list will be in decent shape and should probably be kept. But the article should not be allowed to remain on Wikipedia in its current uncited format, where it is basically original research. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:04, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep but trim. There are some sources out there, which I've just incorporated. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:20, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - not sure what to put, but if kept, I would suggest renaming to List of performers of blue-eyed soul to avoid ambiguity... I do agree the lack of source violates WP:V.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 19:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Delete It's trivia. What the hell's so notable about having blue eyes? Nothing, that's what. This really is listcruft in the strongest sense of the word and I mean that with as much offense as anyone would like to take. If we don't get rid of this list we might as well start "List of Emmy winners with superfluous third nipples," or "List of dates on which people placed bets that Wikipedia would jump the shark." And, put me down for today for $50. Or as Emily Litella would say, "Never mind." Okay, seriously now, although the list includes recent artists of whom inclusion is somewhat dubious (I shall refrain from naming names Christina Aguilera ), several artists from previous decades are well-established as exemplars of the genre, eg Billy Joel, Dusty Springfield, and Marianne Faithful (whose absence from this list is a gross oversight!) Mtiffany71 (talk) 03:33, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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