Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Synthwave (1980s genre)


 * 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. Yunshui 雲 水 10:11, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Synthwave (1980s genre)

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Genre does not seem to actually exist. Tagged as hoax. Sources cited do not back up the info or do not exist. Most of the so-called artists don't seem to exist either. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:37, 8 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - even if it's not a hoax, the sources cited are so obscure and so patchy that the "genre" was ephemeral and trivia - if its not worth reliable sources mentioning it now (and we've been asking for those for years), then it's not appropriate to have a Wikipedia article about it. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 21:43, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 03:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete – Can't find much about it. Probably was never recognized outside of some small circle of German record collectors in the '80s.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 17:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Somebody is making stuff up. Binksternet (talk) 06:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: this article was originally crafted by a few editors who insisted that Synthwave (2000s genre) is a misnomer, and that earlier use of the term "synth wave", "synthwave" for new wave music in the 80s "has precedence" or somesuch. No one ever provided sources of this being a (sub)genre of its own though, and hence this article has ended up as just a stub with no real substance. Maybe it can be saved, but if someone wants to do that, I'd suggest at minimum moving this to a draft until there's some real content in it. I do not see any evidence that this is an outright hoax, but there's definitely a vibe of WP:SYNTH. -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 12:27, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


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