Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Alternative metal

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:05, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Narrow music genres


Narrow music genre portals. Alternative metal has only 4 subcats and only 3 sub genres. Rap rock only has 2 sub genres and no main article shown, only a very small selection of articles. Other pages same issues.

Unhelpful "Do you have a question about Alternative metal that you can't find the answer to? Consider asking it at the Wikipedia reference desk." which is not what the ref desk is really for. The articles are a much cleaner way to explore these topics. German Wikipedia has formed Portal guidelines that specially exclude these narrower music genres as acceptable portals. Legacypac (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Portal:Metalcore. While this is not German Wikipedia, this portal only draws from 14 total articles, so does not meet WP:POG (the English Wikipedia guideline) at this time. North America1000 12:36, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Portal:Rap rock. Only draws from 7 total articles, so does not meet WP:POG at this time. North America1000 12:38, 24 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment, Portal:Experimental music, Portal:Breakbeat, Portal:Electronica, Portal:Ambient music, are parent topics definitively, not broad like Rock n Roll, but broad like Guitar music or Piano music. Experimental is any sort of experiment. Hip Hop is a form of breakbeat. Electronica is from disco to techno and beyond. Ambient music is a modern category of music intended to be low key or atmospheric. Some others should have portals but if they don't have content by now.  y^v^\ ~RTG 11:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete All if this MFD is to be closed in a timely manner rather than being suspended by ArbCom. It is not really important how popular each of these genres is.  The idea behind their creation was obviously that every genre needs a topic portal, and my opinion is that most genres do not need topic portals, and that any decision to keep any portals can be made individually, either by creating the portals all over (since there was no real work done in creating them) or via Deletion Review.  (If that means everything is going to Deletion Review, then maybe that should have been considered before creating thousands of portals.)  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:48, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * There are many more music genre portals for wide genres - I bundled the ones that are combo genres for lack of a better term. Portal:Country music and Portal:Heavy metal seem reasonable but Portal:Country metal is some combination of the two and unreasonable. Musicians are constantly trying to invent new genre terms to differentiate their sound but that does not make the narrow genre portal suitable. Legacypac (talk) 20:15, 24 March 2019 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.