Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beardcore

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The result was Shaved. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Beardcore

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This is rather a tricky subject to be considered for deletion, but I do not feel that this musical genre has received enough broad coverage to warrant inclusion. A Google News archive search returns six results, each referring to the genre, but the descriptions have little more in common then the fact that the performers have beards. There are a couple of mentions of non-reliable sources (eg. Urban Dictionary, Last FM), but I don't feel that they establish a solid idea of what the genre actually is, let alone broad enough coverage to indicate notability. -- Lear's Fool 04:24, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - surely the sources that you found are enough to indicate that the genre is real, even if it's in its infancy, so the best approach would be to allow the article to stay and grow. If you delete it, chances are the next would-be editor won't risk trying to re-create it and the project will lose out. Robman94 (talk) 13:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - :I agree with Lear's Fool. It is that shortage of reliable sources that tends to also sway my judgement, particularly the lack of common ground as to what this 'genre' actually represents (apart from beards). In addition, the article itself does not do any favours by being completely lacking in Wikipedia:Verifiability. It is not up to the reader to undertake such research to substantiate the existence of ths sub-genre - although I commend the above editor for trying to unearth such evidence. Incidentally, only one of the bands claimed to be Beardcore in the article, has such a description (unsourced) in their own Wiki articles. Although it might be in it's infancy, we must avoid being crystal ball gazers. Sorry, but it will be 'moustache hardcore' next ! Derek R Bullamore (talk) 07:50, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

'moustache hardcore' eh? Not a bad idea! :) Robman94 (talk) 16:19, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Detete - per nom. Of the sources found, above and subsequently referred to, I'm not sure that LastFM is rigorous enough in its own research to bestow notability, and Urban Dictionary, with its "All the definitions on Urban Dictionary were written by people just like you. Now's your chance to add your own!", certainly isn't. Might Beardcore also be a sibling-genre of Beardo Weirdcore?. Sub-genre Beardcore does appear to have its own sub-genre Post Ironic Beardcore - perhaps another article here? :) Acabashi (talk) 15:12, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:17, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as non-notable neologism. Not a legitimate musical sub-genre but a pseudo-category based upon fashion, as exhibited by the opening line: Beardcore is a sub-genre of heavy metal music, started in America, where many of the musicians have beards. Carrite (talk) 21:04, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.