Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traditional metal

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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Heavy metal music. That this should be a redirect is clear, and I'm not able to distinguish one target from the other, so I'll simply make the redirect that was argued with evident knowledged. That can be changed by anyone, of course. -Splash^talk 23:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Traditional metal

Bad clone article of the classic metal article. The article's sole purpose is to promote several bands. It also goes on to say that bands such as Queen are inheritantly Metal music, which is just nonsense. Delete and redirect to Classic Metal. Ley Shade 06:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

• I oppose this deletion, since earlier pre-80s form of heavy metal needs an article. And by the way, what is the need of deleting every other article.

Red Hot Sheena|talk 13:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 14:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge. This article looks like classic metal lite. Any useful information can be merged. I can't determine if this is an actual term or not. Most of the Google hits turn up "traditional metal" as opposed to traditional metal. Isopropyl 15:05, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment its not a term used, except interchangebly with Classic Metal. Heavy Metal Music and List of heavy metal genres both show this. Its also noteworthy that Sheena removed the AFD from the page claiming that it wasnt going to be deleted because she said so. Ley Shade 15:33, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment As a one-time fan of this genre in the early 1970s, the term used in my region (Southern California) was consistently "hard rock." Should genre origin be re-labelled? Seriously, I don't know.-- ZincOrbie 19:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Commment. An article for hard rock already exists. Isopropyl 20:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment And that article seems sufficient - although I've never considered Queen to be amongst that group.-- ZincOrbie 21:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Delete Traditional metal isn't a genre especially since the bands play drastically different music and certainly do not make up a scene. It is only useful as a way to distinguish the early Metal bands from later ones, but we already have Heavy Metal for that. I would be ok with a merge except that this article doesn't say anything that Classic Metal, Heavy Metal or Metal don't already say. marnues 19:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

• Traditional Delete (or is that Classic Delete?) per ZincOrbie.--み使い Mitsukai 05:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

• Merge per Isopropyl. Royboycrashfan 07:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Classic Metal. Eivind 11:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect as per Eivind. --BigglesTheGreat 14:06, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect or merge Assuming people actually commonly use the term. ZincOrbie 19:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per Eivind Oldelpaso 21:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Heavy metal music, where the topic is covered much more adequately in this section. Don't redirect to classic metal, which is something different. I would support having a separate article for Early heavy metal if it expanded signficantly on the section cited above. dbtfz^talk 21:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Heavy metal music. That's really where people should be going if they type Traditional Metal.marnues 10:01, 8 March 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.