Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Music of West Africa


 * 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   keep. per WP:SNOW (non-admin closure) Sue Rangell ✍ ✉  05:01, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Music_of_West_Africa
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This article has not had any significant editing for a long time. The discussion of West African music is woefully inadequate, ignoring many genres (kora, balafon, flute, ngoni, among others). The introduction talks about drums as if these were the only instruments in West Africa. The remainder of the page is basically a collection of links that are either irrelevant or spam.

This page is not up to encyclopaedia standard and has not shown any signs of improvement for a long time. MichiHenning (talk) 08:26, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 January 1.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  08:41, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 08:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 08:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep The topic is clearly notable.  The article should be improved, not deleted.  The fact that it has NOT been improved does not make the topic less notable. PianoDan (talk) 21:48, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, a notable topic, this is for improvement, not for deletion.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:14, 2 January 2013 (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.