Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indietronica (2nd nomination)

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 keep, though the consensus seems to be that this article has WP:SURMOUNTABLE problems requiring cleanup. (non-admin closure) Breadblade (talk) 16:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indietronica[edit]

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A big mess oforiginal research. Sources are mainly there to verify other things then the article brings them together with it's own synthesis to try connect it to "Indietronica". None actually mention "Indietronica". The source (Allmusic repeated twice) that does mention the alternative term, Indie Electronic, calls it "Less a style and more a categorization" which goes against this articles claim of a genre. The large list of "notable artists" is unsourced original research. Indietronica lacks coverage in independent sources. It's not notable. duffbeerforme (talk) 13:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 13:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The state of the article may not be good, and these lists of artists generally descend into crappy OR by ignorant fanboys (and girls), but there are plenty of reliable sources that describe artists as indietronica. Whether or not it is a genre or a classification is a minor issue, and not something that justifies deletion. It is 'a thing', and the article can be fixed. --Michig (talk) 10:38, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't usually do a great deal of Wikipedia editing myself but I thought I'd weigh in. This page isn't of particularly high quality, but the genre itself absolutely exists. Whether it's a genre or a style or a categorization or whatever is rather arbitrary and doesn't really matter, whatever of those it is, it does exist, it is notable and I think in many ways, it's one of the largest movements within the modern indie scene, so I think there is reason to suggest this page should be allowed to survive. I think it's reasonably clear that the majority of this page's problems could be fixed through a thorough cleanup and inclusion of better research rather than a blanket deletion. - Jarred 22:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.249.25.64 (talk)
Keep. Indietronica is definitely a genre, though I do agree the article itself is a mess and could use a major rewrite. However, because it is a genre, it should be kept. --StellaBella242 — Preceding undated comment added 03:40, 17 March 2014 (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.