Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bands from Las Vegas

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. No prejudice against category creation, but I won't be doing it. If a non-admin needs access to the deleted material found here, let me know! I'd be happy to provide it for creating a category for the blue links. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of bands from Las Vegas

Another original research list. Full of redlinks for marginal bands. Best served by a category. Pichpich (talk) 21:08, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and categorise, agree with nom that this article adds little and is better served by a category. There is already a Category:Nevada musical groups which would seem useful, though one could perhaps be added for Las Vegas specific bands - Dumelow (talk) 23:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Make cat per nom. Lugnuts (talk) 08:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michael P 02:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)This List was uncategorized at the time I first viewed it; I categorized the Bands by decade and added relevant List of Bands from the 1950's: Sam Butera, etc. and the pictures as shown. I also categorized the 1960's bands. I did not edit or alphabetize the pre-existing bands formed from 2000 to the present, which should be done. Granted, there are a lot of bands in the 2000 category. Perhaps all the myspace references, etc., can be removed and those bands shown in red can be edited to show black typeface such as the 1966-1969 grouping. I believe this is a relevant historical Listing site and should continue with the suggested modifications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mselinsky (talk • contribs)

Strong Keep it will be deleted if created as a category. Categories don't do red links. Categories are not able to retain the few words provided in the list for most of the bands without articles. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

True, categories don't do redlinks. On the other hand, blue links do have the advantage of filtering out insignificant bands which is an easy 80% of the 2000-2010 decade (don't let the blue links fool you, they're mostly to irrelevant articles). In any case, the list contains a lot of bands or acts which cannot reasonably be considered as "from Vegas": Sam Butera, Ted Fio Rito, Harry James, Vido Musso, Grade 8 (band), even Mary Kaye. As is, it is clearly original research. Pichpich (talk) 22:25, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So you are saying that the list needs to be cleaned up. Again, not a reason to delete. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per nom, lists like this are better served as categories. Funeral 21:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If Las Vegas' List of Bands is deleted, it follows that other cities Lists of Bands should follow, for example, LA, New York, Cleveland, Nashville, Austin, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco/Oakland, Kansas City, and so forth. This should also hold true for international cities Lists of Bands: London, Paris, Barcelona....Where do you draw the line? My feeling is it's all or none. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.102.45 (talk) 02:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There are interesting precedents here. For instance Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bands from Europe, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bands from Limerick, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of bands and musicians by letter, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States musicians (2nd nomination) in which all US-state lists were deleted. I'll concede that there's an existing list for L.A. (which should also go if you ask me) but as far as I know, there is no list for Paris, London or Barcelona (or are they under a different name?), nor are there lists for New York, Cleveland or Nashville (I did not bother checking the rest). Pichpich (talk) 03:04, 6 February 2008 (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.