Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ragga metal


 * 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 of the debate was Delete (See Tally Reasoning on Talk Page) Karmafist 08:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Ragga metal
This word looks like yet another instance of the "$GENRE metal" genre and has some 500 Google hits when searching for English pages. When asking Google to omit the name of the pioneer band Skindred this goes down to 175 hits. Pilatus 01:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, 26,800 hits. Wikipedia is not a dictionary of the English language. Kappa 05:39, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Only 233 of those 26,800 hits are unique. Pilatus 13:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete imaginary music genres. &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 05:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. In some peoples opinion they (Skindred) are the founders of a new genre ragga metal. Punkmorten 16:35, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete OR --Rogerd 21:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Quale 06:17, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep what the hell? Skindred is notable, and so is the genre of music they play.  Grue   18:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


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