Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of dub artists

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 17:27, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

List of dub artists

Idiosyncratic non-topic. This could be be handled by a category. I'm not sure it isn't vandalism or nonsense, especially considering the last entry. An administrator deleted an article of this title yesterday, and it was recreated. Delete. --BM 23:00, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Dub music is a non-idiosyncratic real topic. The admin presumably owes the contributor an apology. Kappa 00:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, I pause since this is never going to be inclusive, but it'll be a place to mention active, originally and publically heard artists who don't yet have enough happening for an article. Wyss 00:25, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Clear Keep; the basis for both a list article and a category is well-established and this is useful and accurate. Jgm 03:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this list essentially duplicates what a category does. Megan1967 03:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Categories require articles. Lists allow for content that otherwise isn't encyclopedic enough for a dedicated article, or has no place in an existing one. Wyss 06:10, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Exactly. That's why lists that are mere series of links without other information (such as this one) should be categories instead. Delete. Radiant! 08:55, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

No, some artists would be encyclopedic for inclusion in a list, but not their own article. Categories are not a substitute for lists. Categories are strictly limited to lists of articles, the difference is stark. Wyss 17:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Dub is a real, known music genre, and you can't put nonexistent articles to a category. -Hapsiainen 17:11, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

That's the other issue. Dub is quite the real genre. Wyss 17:35, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I deleted the article, because it was unformatted...I had assumed it was nonsense. When it was reposted, I fixed the list into bullets and linked them all to find that they all had articles. That's convinced me enough to keep; I've even left an apology note on the IP's talk page for deleting it so quickly. Mike H 04:28, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Jmabel | Talk 01:49, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This nomination is breathtaking in its ignorance - David Gerard 00:36, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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