Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nu-Rap


 * 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 The result was speedy delete on user request. Pascal.Tesson 01:46, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Nu-Rap

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Self-promotion thinly disguised as an article about a purpoted "new" genre of rap. I'm afraid however that the world has yet to take notice. For instance the Google search for "DJ X2Z" (or "Dj Desert Storm") and "Nu-rap" get 0 ghits  and the top hits. Nu-rap does get quite a few hits but nothing that shows any sort of consensus about the meaning of the term and certainly nothing linking it to these two DJs. Article is also completely unreferenced. Pascal.Tesson 03:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok.. maybe the genre is too new for it to be worth posting on Wikipedia. But we would like to get this genre out there, and many people search genres on Wikipedia, because it breaks each of them down. No one is going to understand Nu-Rap without an explanation, and that's what this Wiki was, an explanation. If I could somehow get more people involved and get other sites to recognize it, is there anyway the article could stay on? All I ask is a week or so to get things sorted out and get the word out. This is a fairly new idea, but when you research bands like Linkin Park, you see they are classified as Nu-Metal. This is obviously WRONG, because nu-metal is metal with rap beats, not rap with metal beats. We came up with Nu-Rap as a way to classify these bands that used a cross between rap and rock/metal, but in the opposite way of what Nu-Metal does. I apologized for not explaining this earlier, but I wasn't aware that pages like this would be so heavily moderated, and I was hoping that if they were, moderation would wait til I could completely make the page. It is clearly unfinished, and as the genre evolves, I plan to add more to it to explain the relevance. If there is anyway you could stop the deletion of this page and let me work on it as the genre evolves (it will evolve a LOT this summer), I would be forever grateful. WickedXero777 05:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * This discussion will stay open for five days; after that an admin/sysop/mod (whatever) will make a decision. Based on what's there now, it would probably be deleted.  If you wish to keep it, you need to attribute the existence of Nu-rap to at least one, and preferably two or three, citations from reliable sources.  It's not enough to say that Nu-rap is an emerging genre because that would be original research.  If you can't meet those standards, you can post the information to a website other than Wikipedia.  If you can meet those standards but you need more time, you can use your user page as a workshop until the article is ready. Placeholder account 05:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Check the page now.. I believe I have done a little bit better of explaining it all. I will do a website on this topic and use it as reference. If I do decide to take that route, will the page be deleted, or even thought of being deleted? Would a page like a Myspace work as a reference? WickedXero777 05:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * MySpace is 100% not acceptable as a source. Read this policy page to see what is classified as a reliable source ChrisTheDude 07:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment nor is it appropriate to use Wikipedia to post original research. Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a provider of free webspace. Pascal.Tesson 13:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this is kind of going about things the wrong way around. Wikipedia is not the place to create something and then have it spread; instead, things need to be created and become notable and encyclopedic first. This is entirely original research and a protologism; delete. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a really bad case of original research. What needs to happen is that each and every one of the claims made in this article (including what seems to be a rather hopeful list of artists performing the style of music) must be made by an independent source first. Once that happens, the article can be written. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 04:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable genre with no citations which are reliable. Searching indicates no consensus on what constitutes Nu-Rap as a genre. When it's done cooking out in the real world, then we can document it here if it becomes notable enough. Cheers, Lanky TALK 14:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Just go ahead and delete it. I blanked the page. WickedXero777 00:27, 6 June 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.