Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protest bands


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The result was   redirect to Protest song. NW ( Talk ) 15:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Protest bands

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No evidence of this term being used. There are certainly bands who weave political messages into their songs, but it isn't our place to arbitrarily declare them "protest bands". Ironholds (talk) 08:08, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete/Redirect. Protest song is an encyclopedic subject, but protest bands (a term not in particularly common usage) are just bands that perform protest songs. I did find some bands described as "protest bands" in news articles, but in the absence of anything more substantial, a redirect to Protest song would appear to be the best approach, that article already covering protest singers and bands to some extent. --Michig (talk) 11:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect, the single link in the very short article is to antiwarsongs.org, so making this a redirect to Protest song makes sense to me too. Protest singer seems to be a commonly used term -- Foetusized (talk) 14:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Not enough content to be too worried, but you are mistaken about usage. 1,240 Yahoo hits for "protest bands" minus "Iran" (football players being paid to wear green protest wrist bands). 4,870 Google hits for same.Anarchangel (talk) 16:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That isn't really a lot of search hits in the scheme of things. "protest singer" gets 50,400 Google hits, and "protest song" 262,000. It isn't unusual for apparently random combinations of two words to generate similar levels of search results, e.g. "guitar chocolate" gets 2,240 Google hits.--Michig (talk) 16:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
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