Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-04-08/System of a Down

Where's the dispute?
System of a Down

What's the dispute?
Zouavman Le Zouave has repeatedly protested the inclusion of a well-sourced genre, progressive metal. This user has claimed that there are not enough reliable sources to back up the genre's inclusions, and has removed sources against consensus. Claims that other editors are acting against consensus in contesting the inclusion of a poorly-sourced and inconsistent term, nu metal, whose only basis for inclusion is that the band in question was formed at the time the term was being used and applied to varied hard rock bands. As a comparison, here are six reliable, consistent sources terming the band progressive metal:



Whereas only three reliable, consistent sources term the band "nu metal":

A fourth book is cited in the article, but no one seems to be able to look up the book in question to retreive the exact information. At one point, Zouavman Le Zouave tried to cite the following article as a basis of the band being termed "nu metal":



While the version published on the author's website lists the title as They're an Armenian band, the newspaper's archives adds a reference to the band being termed as "nu metal". Being that the version published by the author only lists the above title, I believe that the content should reflect what the author wrote, not what was likely added by the newspaper without the author's consent. Secondly, the article itself only directly refers to the band's genre as art rock, and, in fact, states that System of a Down is not nu-metal. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 18:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC))