Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of best-selling boy bands (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:52, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of best-selling boy bands

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This article is essentially unchanged from the one that was previously deleted through AFD. So this second nomination follows the same argument. Despite being a list article, it is rather an attempt to construct a ranked chart of boy bands. The are no official charts for boy bands alone, so although sales figures are cited, combining them in this way is original synthesis. The inclusion criteria of what a "boy band" is is arbitrary, with an all-encompassing and unspecified "exceptions", therefore including/excluding bands at the POV of contributing editors and affecting the validity of the ranking produced. The bands listed are chiefly those that editors have heard of; i.e. English speaking Irish/British/American bands. The article then goes on to repeat the same issues with ranked charts of individual recordings of these bands. -- Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 21:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I started a discussion on this on the article talk page, with a few examples of what's wrong with it. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 21:52, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:01, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:01, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:01, 12 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, —Tom Morris (talk) 06:41, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, take your pick of WP:OR or WP:SYNTH. Also, as the talk page demonstrates, there is no agreement to what constitutes a "boy band", so the criteria for inclusion are also unacceptably fuzzy. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 04:14, 1 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.