Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balkan ballad

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:29, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Balkan ballad

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Sources are extremely poor, list is entirely unsourced (and nonsense), article only really discusses Balkan ballads in a Eurovision context (which doesn't pass WP:GNG) and there's few other sources on Balkan ballads in general so not notable. Toffeenix (talk) 02:31, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Toffeenix (talk) 02:35, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:27, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

delete Balkan ballads are, well, ballads. Mangoe (talk) 18:21, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, sources do not seem to support most of what is written in the article, and the article is mostly about Eurovision, which is a very tiny segment of what this type of music is supposed to be. --Tone 19:06, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Article talks about certain types of ballads. If Britannica wrote about it, why would it not be relevant ? Боки ✉ 00:31, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The source is not available, so it is hard to say if the source is about the same thing that the article is about. Britannica is almost certainly not discussing Eurovision entries. Tone 12:31, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:48, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A link to the Britannica source was added since then. The Britannica mentions "balkan ballads" in passing, and focuses mostly on ballads in general. Not enough for notability. Also, "uses ethnic instrumentation" and "in modern times uses Western-inspired instrumentation" can describe so many music genres and doesn't make the Balkan variety special.Jaguarnik (talk) 03:00, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the Britannica entry is literally a single line that is not even a full sentence. There's no evidence that "Balkan ballads" outside a topic of just ballads in general pass GNG. Devonian Wombat (talk) 02:45, 5 September 2023 (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.