Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of deceased hip hop artists (2nd nomination)


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The result was move and rename to List of murdered hip hop musicians.. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000  ( talk,  contribs ) 21:43, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

List of deceased hip hop artists
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Rename to List of murdered hip hop musicians and purge. Because all human beings eventually die and hip hop musicians are human beings, as currently constituted this list is WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Hip hop musicians do have a greater tendency than musicians in other genres to die of violent causes (e.g. gunshots) rather than natural ones, so that's a noteworthy constraint that can be placed on the list -- but a list of all hip hop musicians who ever died of any cause at all will eventually include all hip hop musicians who ever lived at all, so it's not a useful or maintainable list in its current form. The list should accordingly be renamed and purged to include only those who died in a noteworthy way, rather than indiscriminately including all deaths. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Rename - List should included only those who did not die a natural death. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:14, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment There were very similar suggestions to rename at the last AfD, but it was never done. I decided to just do it myself. The large number of non-manslaughter deaths caused a bit of a problem. I separated the two categories into separate lists and renamed the article as Lists. The idea can of course be improved. Mr. Magoo (talk) 18:28, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Rename per Bearcat. Dying in and of itself is not a useful criterion. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:07, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Rename as I suggested a while back on the talk page. JTtheOG (talk) 05:26, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Rename Eventually, they'll all be dead.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 06:51, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Rename This list will eventually be obscenely long considering that everyone dies and the list will be never ending. This list is more about hip hop musicians who died somewhat young (62-ish or younger). Velo  ciraptor  888  18:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:26, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:26, 23 September 2016 (UTC)


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