Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traditional heavy 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 was   keep. --Selket Talk 17:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Traditional heavy metal

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The article is an a POV magnet, that has no real definition ("they have stayed loyal to the traditional style"), and the article is just a big bunch of bands that people think fit the term. If this AfD fails, I would suggest a merger. Master of Metal (Have a chat!) 14:25, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment This article was previously known as Classic metal and looked like this. I brought the article to the attention of the Wikiproject Metal and after this discussion, I decided to move the article to the current name. I also removed all the original research and unreferenced statements so that it became what it is today: a mere stub with room for expansion. Bear in mind that this is a stub with references. Whatever reservations I might have about this article, I am not certain that a perceived "insane umbrella term" is a valid ground for nominating anything for deletion. --Bardin (talk) 14:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment OK. I'll correct that. Master of Metal (Have a chat!) 14:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. There's a kind of ambiguation between metal music as umbrella term (including death metal, black, doom, etc) and heavy metal as subgenre of metal music (particularly NWOBHM for example). We need an article to describe the subgenre. Garret Beaumain (talk) 12:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Same as aboveFrédérick Duhautpas (talk) 12:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per the two above; I agree that it needs clarified that heavy metal can be both the parent genre of power/death/symphonic/folk and other equally diverse variations, and a seperate subgenre in its own right. The obvious way to do it is with this article: it just needs improved, not removed. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:35, 22 May 2008 (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.