Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos with censored explicit content


 * 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   no consensus. plenty of time to discuss, with no prevailing consensus Nja 247 10:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

List of music videos with censored explicit content

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Unsourced list with no coherent inclusion criteria. Often unsupported by or contradicted by the main articles on listed items, almost never supported by sourced/referenced content. Much of the described, supposedly controversial, content isn't "explicit". Appears to focus mainly on MTV/VH1, some references to the BBC in linked articles. So we've got a poorly constructed, generally unsourced list of videos MTV supposedly edited before broadcasting (or in some cases didn't run in daylight hours. That's not encyclopedic. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:11, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions.  --  treelo  radda  15:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep Watching the videos is enough to tell if it is explicit or not. I myself have seen quite a few of these videos and agree with the article for censored videos. Str8cash (talk) 19:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 07:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  Deadchildstar (talk) 16:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The list itself maybe unsourced, but the articles it links to are, in the main, ref'd (I checked a handful). The article title could do with a renaming (List of music videos that have been censored), for example, to give it a more-defined inclusion.  Lugnuts  (talk) 06:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Definition is too subjective and in turn scope is not clearly defined. WesleyDodds (talk) 07:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete This list would have been clearer years before, but now with the fading deemphasis of music videos on music networks and the declining influence of keeping a video in one time period when it can be watched online anytime of day, this list is unwieldy and unable to be sourced well except for the most obvious controversial videos of the 80's and 90's.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 08:05, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The scope of this piece has always been quite open ended, and it is hard to imagine the list ever becoming exhaustive in nature. It would, however, be salvageable if converted to a prose-heavy piece discussing commonalities. Hard to imagine that sources wouldn't exist for such a discussion. Could always move to Censorship of music videos, however, and cut the cruft. MrZaius  talk  15:42, 9 August 2009 (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.