Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of post-disco artists and songs

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 no consensus. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:39, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of post-disco artists and songs[edit]

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This article is a list of random songs produced or performed in the post-disco era. Most of the references in the article are not reliable (discogs/dusty groove), while most of the rest are either blogs or misinterpreted and such. -- Appletangerine un (talk) 14:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - ridiculous and arbitrary list and WP:SYNTH. Eusebeus (talk) 14:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Oh yeah, WP:SYNTH is getting down tonight. Boogie and delete! Angryapathy (talk) 14:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - i propose to delete most of unsourced WP:Synth's and keep only sourced items. RockandDiscoFanCZ (talk) 16:17, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think this is a problem that every second list of songs/artists/shoes/booze/etc suffers. It's all about time. We should wait for more reliable sources. Some songs should be deleted, but I think deletion is not a good idea, but fixation is a change, that we can trust in. RockandDiscoFanCZ (talk) 18:28, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think that by limiting this to the sourced items, and by providing additional (and sourced) context that explains "post-disco", this can be a worthwhile spinoff of post-disco. I recognize that there's the opportunity for all sorts of jokes about disco music in general, but I'll forgo attempts at humor in this instance, since the author is striving to link to reliable and verifiable sources. Most articles don't bother. To the extent that there are problems with original synthesis, they can be fixed, particularly by limiting this to songs where that label was applied. Mandsford (talk) 16:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:59, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Post-disco is a real genre, so listing things that fall into it, is a perfectly acceptable Wikipedia list. Dream Focus 17:42, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fences&Windows 00:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)List of post-disco artists and songs[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- Fences&Windows 00:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:26, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Post disco is also up for AFD. at least one of the songs on this list is not described in its article as post disco, but only as performed by a disco artist. we really would need each song on this list to have a solid reference calling it "post disco". if kept, it needs to be trimmed back to only those which are sourced as such.im currently undecided about whether to delete either or both articles.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:39, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't even think that's likely to be good enough, given that the problem with post-disco seems to be that anything after disco gets called "post-disco" in reviews and the like, whatever the genre. Mangoe (talk) 14:27, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- What is "after the disco"? There's nothing after the disco. Post-disco is just some kind of eighties movement. That's all. RockandDiscoFanCZ (talk) 21:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - excellent points. i guess we would need a group of well respected music journalists/scholars giving a consensus for a description of a particular style of music that they call post-disco, with their choices as examples of the genre, before either article here is valid.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:10, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - AMG calls it "genre" and this Thriller (album) review emphasize post-disco as "genre" too (and unreliable source last.fm saying it too). Some call it "boogie", but mostly it isn't clear if sources saying "post-disco" is a genre or after disco movement (that's why this AfD). It's so unclear about that. It's the same problem as in dance-pop or alternative dance articles. Yes, we need some experts. RockandDiscoFanCZ (talk) 13:10, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.