Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of musicians from the Southern United States


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 13:42, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

List of musicians from the Southern United States

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Impractical list; normally I would say that this a category & list should go together but this is one of the cases where a category would make more sense.  DGG ( talk ) 09:16, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:50, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:50, 24 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I don’t see that we’d want to have a category either, unless it’s just a higher level parent for the state-specific categories. This just seems too overbroad (musicians of any type or genre from an entire US region) to be useful in either form. postdlf (talk) 17:35, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as indiscriminate as heck, y'all. That's a sizable percentage of all the musicians in the US. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:03, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - I will go with WP:INDISCRIMINATE for this list article, but others can argue about whether equivalent categories are valid. I will point out a logical error too: for solo artists there is going to be a problem with the difference between their birthplaces and the locations where they actually launched their careers. That's already a problem in this list for Kanye West, who was born in Atlanta, but was raised in Chicago and launched his career from that city's music scene. So the guy is "from" the Southern United States, but he's a Chicago-based musician. Would he then also qualify for whatever "List of Musicians from the _____ United States" that includes Illinois? That's the kind of gray area that will make this type of list article less and less informative as it grows. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 02:34, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Kanye would also qualify for a Midwest list. GamerKiller2347 (talk) 19:01, 25 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Most certainly indiscriminate. Ajf773 (talk) 11:31, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unhelpful, even if it were somehow made reasonably comprehensive. -- Hoary (talk) 01:18, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Even the scope of what states should be in this category is debatable, so there is no clear definition.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:06, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per LIST. It would be so large and indiscriminate as to be unwieldy. Categories would work much better. Bearian (talk) 21:11, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


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