Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dark Pop

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Pop

This is a page I have looked at a couple of times, and I have now decided to nominate it for deletion. It is completely unsourced, which I know is not grounds for deletion at all, but on a google search, I could not turn up a single referance that Wikipedia would allow as a source actually trying to define the genre. I found a few references to an album called 'Dark Pop' by The Colour Guard, and a couple of rather obscure artists claiming to be Dark Pop, but often this seemed, rather than being a different genre, to be pop, that happened to be quite dark. There were also a few very small online stores that grouped artists together as 'Dark pop', and none of the artists mentioned on these were on the list in this article. Furthermore, when I had a look through this list, none of the bands that were claimed to be 'Dark Pop' mentioned the fact that they were on their own respective articles, and some of them had very long lists of genres that the artist could fall under. I feel that 'Dark Pop' is either Pop that happens to be rather dark, or one specific album of the same title, and not a stand alone genre. I can see where the authors are coming from with their article, and this also happens to be not so far from music that I personally like, but, as it stands, I believe this to be original research. J Milburn 12:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Longstanding and chronic violation of policy is definitely grounds for deletion. You did the right thing bringing it here, and we should do the right thing by deleting the article. Captainktainer * Talk 14:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment: Thankyou for your support, I was uncertain what to do about the article. J Milburn 14:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as neologism. Kafziel 14:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wow, this is bad even compared to all of the other weird music genre pages we have. Recury 16:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, genre represented by a band that doesn't quite exist. Gazpacho 17:57, 16 August 2006 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.