Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of trance artists


 * 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 Delete. @pple complain 10:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

List of trance artists

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This list is redundant with the category Category:Trance musicians. It has been around for 2 years and is still not any good and mostly serves as a redlink farm (of nn artists) and is a spam target. I have discussed this with the only other editor who has been trying to improve it recently and he agreed. Leaving this article here increases the amount of bookkeeping while not adding any useful navigation or additional content. For these reasons, I don't believe that this list serves any of the objectives outlined in WP:LIST and should be deleted as redundant to the corresponding category. Wickethewok 20:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete No need to duplicate the category.--JodyByak, yak, yak 21:08, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as serving no informational or navigational purpose beyond the corresponding category's. --Alksub 21:28, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, for now. Per Categories, lists, and series boxes advanages pt. 3, "Lists can include items for which there are yet no articles (red links).", which taking a brief glance at this shows there are a really rather large number of redlinks. Whilst normally I don't like these lists (they don't add anything extra to the topic that the category doesn't cover, aside from my point), there seems to be enough redlinks to warrant keeping this one for the time being. At least until a lot of the gaps can be filled in, anyway. (Struck out pending comment below.) AllynJ (talk | contribs) 22:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops, I missed your covering it (I really shouldn't try and build arguments when I've been up for 16+ hours without caffeine :)), how many of these redlinks are definitely nn? How many would be able to maintain their own articles without being AfD'd? You say "mostly", I know, but how many *can* stand on their own two feet do you reckon? AllynJ (talk | contribs) 22:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom as the cat is more then enough.--JForget 01:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Unless you put this list or an abridged list with the page for trance music itself, I think this should stay. It was helpful to me.--JBRam_2002 22:58, 1 September 2007 (EST)
 * How was this helpful to you in a way that the category would not be? I don't see the purpose of putting an abridged list in the trance music article - that will just lead to another giant list of trance artists duplicating the category.  The most important artists should be mentioned in the text already.  Wickethewok 04:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete' does nothing a category cant except attract spam links Corpx 05:30, 2 September 2007 (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.