Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of popular music genres


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The result was delete and redirect to List of music styles. ✗ plicit  14:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

List of popular music genres

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It looks like the page is a copy-paste of List of music styles and Popular music. About 90% of the list is copied from List of music styles (mainly because both pages use AllMusic as reference, the only reference of the lists). And all of the reference (the popular music genres) is copied from Popular music. So i'm nominating this page for deletion because:

1. Almost all of the list points are copied from List of music styles

2. The headline is copied from Popular music (and the references)

3. The list is derived from AllMusic, which is the only reference for the list. Does Wikipedia allow single-reference statements?

4. The page is not well managed. Some anonymous editors put some genres into wrong section, like putting ragga into hip hop and disco into R&B and Soul.

5. The title "list of popular music genres" is ambiguous, like, is there an exact measurement about how popular the genres like pop, jazz, and hip-hop? Also, how can you know that genres like vaporwave is not popular? There's no exact measurement of how popular and unpopular a music genre. GogoLion (talk) 13:23, 29 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Partially supporting, as I more prefer a merge here. I also wrote the same doubts about this a year ago: Talk:List of popular music genres. Initially, this page should gather all genres except of classical, traditional folk, religious, and maybe experimental/avantgarde. So that is literally should copy the biggest part of the list of music styles. So it just feels excessive to exist separately like this. On #3: it's not really a complete copy of Allmusic after all. People have been adding links here for a long time, so first of all we should move everything from one list to the other, and then just place a redirect here. Solidest (talk) 14:10, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I've finished moving everything from the popular to the general list. So now this is a de facto shortened copy of List of music styles. Thus it can be removed or replaced with a redirect. Solidest (talk) 09:34, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:41, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:42, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Appears to be a content fork. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 06:49, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Thanks Solidest for completing the merge. Reywas92Talk 15:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


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