Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latin metal (2nd nomination)
I am re-creating this discussion for the deletion of the article latin metal for the following reasons:
- This page is only a sentence and a list. The sentence could easily be debated and the list is very short.
- There are no sources.
- There are only three articles that link to latin metal. Eleven months after its creation, I think it shows that this article is not necessary for the encyclopedia.
- There are only ten bands in the list of bands. I do not think that a musical genre with only 10 acts is notable enough to be on Wikipedia.
- Those ten bands are very loosely connected. Some bands are nu metal, others are hardcore punk, others are industrial metal, others are death metal, others are grindcore, and others are thrash metal. If latin metal was such a big musical genre, the bands included in the genre would be somehow connected, in a similar way that black metal acts are.
- I did my litte investigation on the subject:
- If one was to type "Latin" on Encyclopaedia Metallum in the "Musical genre" category, there are zero results to show. For those who are wondering, Encyclopaedia Metallum does not make users pick from a list of genres when they are adding a band, they have to type a genre description themselves.
- There are no pages on Rockdetector that talk about "latin metal".
- If one was to type "Latin metal" on Google, there would be 36 400 results.
- However, many of these results have actually nothing to do with the subject. They consist of lists of styles who generally list the "Latin" musical style just before the "Metal" musical genre (alphabetical order). You can see it clearly here and on the previous Google link (6th, 7th, and 9th results on the first page). It generally is something like "...Hip Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, ..."
- Many of the pages are pages that are copying Wikipedia's information (Answers.com for example). One of those results is the third result when typing "latin metal".
- If we are to take off "Jazz" and "Wikipedia" from the research, in order to take off all search results that come from Wikipedia or style lists, we are left with: 967 results!!!. I don't think that with less than a thousand GHits this subject is notable enough to be included on Wikipedia.
Zouavman Le Zouave (Talk to me! • O)))) 00:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Weak delete. 967 Ghits isn't bad, considering, but this genre can't seen to make up its mind what it is. Apart from the article's definition, there also appears to be one that claims Latin Metal is "played by metal bands with Latino members". It's not much a genre if it's vaguely defined. EliminatorJR Talk 00:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- Delete non notable term, see WP:NEO. IronChris | (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)