Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghetto rock

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 Delete --JForget 00:13, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ghetto rock

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Expired PROD, reason was "Neologism; no sources given", but a Google news search shows a number of independent references to the term suggesting that it may have notability. So I'm AfD'ing it because I think it needs discussion. Don't have an opinion myself.  —SMALLJIM  11:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete I can't find these sources; what I do find is a few song titles and the like, but nothing at all that identifies a musical genre. As best I can determine, it's a almost-but-not-quite-utterly-meaningless tee shirt tag phrase. Mangoe (talk) 17:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Not only is there little to no notability on this subject, but the rationale behind the creation of the article is highly suspect. The page was created by a user who only edited Wikipedia once and half of the original version of the page is spent hyping a band called Kongcrete, who don't seem notable at all. WesleyDodds (talk) 03:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete I can't find any evidence there is a standard usage of this term as a music genre. There are albums, songs, clothing brands, club nights etc which bear this name but don't appear to be culturally interlinked, and a couple of bands – DownsiiD (cross-genre rock, hip-hop, and soul), Oski Foundation (soul and R&B) – with relatively little in common have used it to describe their music. The latter part is a concern; it suggests there isn't an established genre. It's also interesting to note that no bands on Wikipedia are described as "ghetto rock" bands. --Sturm 09:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete I've already made comments on the talk page and in edit summaries. I'm not sure if I need say any more but throw my democratic weight behind the proposal.Munci (talk) 18:05, 2 March 2008 (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.