Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scouse house


 * 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  01:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Scouse house

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Doesn't seem like a notable genre. Has no sources and is possibly original research or fabricated. Cannot find any reliable second party sources that mention it. --Neon white (talk) 05:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep There is plenty of evidence thst scouse House is an established genre. Many record labels (including All Around the Word, Xposed Records, D&G, Bouncin Tunes & many more) have released records in this genre. Many music stores (Online & Highstreet stores) also sell scouse records (Juno, HTFR anyone!?). Scouse house is quite young, but that is no excuse to ingonre it's exsistence. Nigel A. Cryer, Burnley. 17:00, 19 December 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.110.163 (talk)
 * Unestablished non-notable genres that have no reliable coverage don't belong on wikipedia. There are no major online music stores that recognise this as a category. Buzz words that exist in a small locality and are used/invented by small independant labels aren't notable genres. Anybody can invent a term to refer to what they regard as a seperate genre. If there is reliable evidence then add it to the article. Claims of evidence isn't enough. --Neon white (talk) 20:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Unreferenced neologism. No evidence that this is an established genre.  If reliable sources could be cited, that would be one thing, but this article shows no evidence of such.  --Jayron32| talk | contribs  06:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I think it's time to start taking a hardline on music genres. No sources, nothing that really distinguishes this from other forms of house music, many notability and original research issues here. Ridernyc (talk) 08:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete If this were a form of the rock'n'roll it would still be a mistake. Lacks credibility and is not Big Band-y enough, dig? Natasha Amazing (talk) 08:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a well-established music genre in the North-west of England with many well-known producers and artists (see Ultrabeat for example and most releases on AATW include some form of scouse mix). The majority of nightclubs in Liverpool also play it as their main form of music.  I'll put up some samples if that would help? I'm also looking for sources but they're hard to come by... :) Richsage (talk) 09:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Whether it is established is irrelevant. What matters here at Wikipedia is whether it is documented.  This is an encyclopaedia and we aren't in the business of documenting the undocumented.  We aren't in the business of inferring a new genre of music that is heretofore undocumented, from examples or otherwise.  So to make your argument hold water, please cite some of those sources.  I and other editors have looked and we haven't found any sources at all. Uncle G (talk) 13:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply - a few published sources that mention it in passing can be found at (page 120), at  (page 118), International DJ magazine April 2004 (online version ) and a Reuters Paul McCartney interview at .  I'm not sure whether these would class as appropriate enough secondary sources due to the lack of information within them (save for the mention of the genre), but there seems to be a dearth in books or published material that goes into more depth, given that the genre is relatively new (in comparison with other, more widely-available genres) and has a tendency to be localised to the north-west.  I'd be grateful for your opinions on the above? Thanks, Richsage (talk) 15:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, see I looked over the sources, and it looks like you hit the nail on the head with the problem. So, lets say I want to know something about this musical style.  Lets say I want to look for a description of the style.  All I have from these sources is that it is a form of house music, and it is "bouncy".  Not much to build an article on.  If there does not exist a discussion of the source in any real detail outside of Wikipedia, then anything put INTO Wikipedia becomes original research and that is not the purpose of Wikipedia.  Wikipedia compiles already published information; as Uncle G says, it should never be the first place such information is published.  If this article stands, it appears that it WOULD be the first place it is published.  For what it is worth, I did a search at [www.allmusic.com (go to advanced search, and search under "style") and they have bubkiss on this "Scouse house".  Allmusic is pretty much comprehensive, and if they don't recognize it as a style, its probably still fairly fringe at this point.  Keep looking; if you can find a source that says "Scouse house is charcterized by yada yada yada..." that actually explains what it is and has some depth to it, you may have something, but I don't see any of that now.  --[[User:Jayron32|Jayron32]]| talk | contribs  17:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I dont believe you can create genres based on localities, there's little evidence of it's existance and even less to prove it differs in any way from basic House music. Every band from every local scene likes to think they have a seperate style but generally the only difference is the locality in which it is being played in. The only real artist of note mentioned in the article is Ultrabeat, who's sound can be more accurately described as Eurodance as the sound is rooted are largely in the German dance music scene. --Neon white (talk) 18:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete It's had long enough. Nothing concrete's been to done to demonstrate its veracity.  86.134.198.192 (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


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