The result was delete. Cirt ( talk) 11:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC) reply
The majority of these "artists" don't even have google hits, let alone wikipedia articles. The list is unsourced, unmaintainable, and people are just arbitrarily adding their "projects", even if all they have is a computer recording of them and a friend mashing a keyboard and uploading it to myspace.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates would suggest that the (valid) entries here are much more suited to being moved to a Category. Note point #5 on the disadvantages of lists. Freqsh0 ( talk) 01:29, 21 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Granted, it is true that virtually every genre seems to have these. However, I fail to see why any list like this exists. You can simply go to the category page for a specific genre, and get the same type of list, except in those cases it's automatically self-maintained and bands actually need to be notable enough to have articles.
As for how this is "unmaintainable", it cites zero references, and I don't see anybody adding literally thousands anytime soon to back up every entry. Again, having a category addresses this issue, because said references are in the actual article, and until the article is sufficient, it doesn't land on the category page.
Without references, how does anyone verify whether an artist qualifies? Unless someone can claim to be an authority on every artist in this genre, those with a moderate level of knowledge will just assume that these might be appropriate artists that they simply have not yet heard of.
Based on this, and the fact that a Category page provides anything this can offer and more, I see no reason why anyone would want to keep this article (aside from aspiring computer musicians that haven't released anything but like to sneak themselves on here, knowing it's impossible to challenge). - Freqsh0 ( talk) 08:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The result was delete. Cirt ( talk) 11:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC) reply
The majority of these "artists" don't even have google hits, let alone wikipedia articles. The list is unsourced, unmaintainable, and people are just arbitrarily adding their "projects", even if all they have is a computer recording of them and a friend mashing a keyboard and uploading it to myspace.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates would suggest that the (valid) entries here are much more suited to being moved to a Category. Note point #5 on the disadvantages of lists. Freqsh0 ( talk) 01:29, 21 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Granted, it is true that virtually every genre seems to have these. However, I fail to see why any list like this exists. You can simply go to the category page for a specific genre, and get the same type of list, except in those cases it's automatically self-maintained and bands actually need to be notable enough to have articles.
As for how this is "unmaintainable", it cites zero references, and I don't see anybody adding literally thousands anytime soon to back up every entry. Again, having a category addresses this issue, because said references are in the actual article, and until the article is sufficient, it doesn't land on the category page.
Without references, how does anyone verify whether an artist qualifies? Unless someone can claim to be an authority on every artist in this genre, those with a moderate level of knowledge will just assume that these might be appropriate artists that they simply have not yet heard of.
Based on this, and the fact that a Category page provides anything this can offer and more, I see no reason why anyone would want to keep this article (aside from aspiring computer musicians that haven't released anything but like to sneak themselves on here, knowing it's impossible to challenge). - Freqsh0 ( talk) 08:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply