Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian soft rock

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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 merge to Contemporary Christian music. Mangojuicetalk 13:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Christian soft rock

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Fails WP:RS, so questionable whether this is a "real" genre. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian ska. Punkmorten (talk) 20:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as per nom. Hours of fun for all the family. RMHED (talk) 21:09, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Quick googling (adding “-wiki” to the search) gives the term as a retail or marketing category here,

here, and here; as a listings category here; there’s a “Christian soft rock station 104.7/The Fish”; the term is used in Maury Dean, Rock ‘n’ Roll Gold Rush (Algora 2003), ISBN 0875862071, p. 377: Pat Boone as a “Christian soft rock crooner” (found on google books); and there’s a rather unflattering reference in the Arkansas Times of Oct. 4, 2007: “after listening to a solid hour of contempo-Christian soft rock, we can tell you that — bar none — it is the crappiest music in the universe”. Also half a dozen peronal reviews on Amazon, and then I got fed up and stopped going through the hits (there were a few thousand). So it does seem to be a genre that people find useful, however suspect it might be in terms of taste. --Paularblaster (talk) 22:13, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

  • weak delete - together with the many other "christian something" articles currently on AfD, a single article along the lines of "christian music" or such would be much better. --.Tom. (talk) 14:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge, along with the other subgenres, into Contemporary Christian music. DHowell (talk) 06:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with rock(music).IslaamMaged126 11:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect, along with other subgenres. This is a real subgenre. The term is occasionally used. Every subgenre of pop/Top 40 music has a corresponding subgenre in Contemporary Christian music (CCM). Right now the Contemporary Christian music article isn't very large, so merging in these small subgenres articles makes sense. I would change my opinion if the CCM article became larger. Royalbroil 14:43, 3 December 2007 (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.