Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mafioso rap

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 Redirect to Gangsta rap. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 20:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mafioso rap

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Contested Prod. As stated in my initial Prod notice, there are no reliable sources present in this article. Additionally, neither do there seem to be any available reliable sources which use this term consistently. It therefore seems to be close to Original Research on the part of its editors. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 05:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Seems to be yet another musical genre that was made up one day. Although a few critics have run with it, it's just further musical hairsplitting, and thus not the subject of any reliable sources. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 05:09, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  • What makes you think I made this article up? Tuf-Kat (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. —Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 05:24, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment -- the term gets about 7 thousand google hits, and this article is viewed about 6 thousand times a month. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 06:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Strong delete...hits dont really justify anything do they? And per TPH --Camaeron (talk) 16:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Hits are a very rough measure of how useful an article is to the general public. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 23:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

*Delete made up. No reliable sources to back it up anyhow Doc Strange^{Telepathic Messages}Strange Frequencies 17:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• • Please do not make wild accusations that I acted in poor faith by making this article. Tlogmer has already pointed out that it has use outside Wikipedia and was obviously not made up. Tuf-Kat (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Alrighty then. Due to the fact it does have use outside of Wikipedia and therefore is not made up, I'm changing my vote, to Redirect to gangsta rap, as there still aren't any reliable sources. Doc Strange^{Telepathic Messages}Strange Frequencies 15:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

• Comment -- if this is deleted, please put a copy in my userspace. Thanks, Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 18:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect -- As the creator of this article, please do not accuse me of making things up. As Tlogmer noted, the term has widespread use. If it is your opinion that no reliable sources use the term in an encyclopedic manner, then vote to delete, but do not accuse me of making things up, as it is obviously a term that predates my creation of the article. The term overlaps with gangsta rap, and should be redirected there rather than deleted. Tuf-Kat (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect per Tuf-Kat. This definitely isn't made up, but since there's no reliable sources, it should be redirected to Gangsta rap. No prejudice to anyone restoring the article with references. Spellcast (talk) 09:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect; what Spellcast said. --Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 12:49, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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.