Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piano rock (4th nomination)


 * 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. Kurykh (talk) 15:54, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Piano rock
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No sources, made-up genre. Two consensuses were formed to delete the article since 2009, but this never happened for some reason. The third one, from 2015, was tagged as "no consensus". Its rationales for "Keep" noted that the genre is sometimes mentioned by AllMusic and Rolling Stone, but that does not automatically cement its notability, per WP:SIGCOV (Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention).

An article could be made about the general subject of pianos in rock music (a la Electronics in rock music), but as far as a dedicated "piano rock" category goes, it's about as much a thing as "banjo rock" or "trombone rock". --Ilovetopaint (talk) 22:25, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment - A correction to the nomination statement. The article was deleted after the first two AfDs. It was then deleted twice more as a recreation. restored it and then it went to the third AfD and was kept as no consensus. See [logs]. ~ GB fan 22:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:13, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 16:04, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment -Well now. It seems to me that there is quite good evidence that this is a thing. It is certainly mentioned in news articles, in books and academic studies. There are various student books for learning piano rock songs.  The question for me then is whether this is sufficiently distinct as a subset of rock to deserve it's own page. I'm not sure it is. At best it is a simple wiktionary definition - there doesn't appear to me to be any evidence of significant coverage of piano rock which would show it was notable in its own right. I'm going to hold off from !voting to see if anyone's keep arguments are persuasive, but that's how I see it at the moment. JMWt (talk) 17:43, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete with apologies to Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Elton John. All I'm seeing is a bunch of lists and forum comments, nothing that elevates this to a recognized subgenre. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:25, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   06:18, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. It has never been shown to be a genre. It is a term that gets used to describe rock music that prominently features piano, so there will be GHits, but the artists described as 'piano rock' are a pretty diverse lot. --Michig (talk) 19:48, 17 May 2017 (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.