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[edit] Why not "Merseybeat"?

I don't understand why this article is not called "Merseybeat". The scene in and around Liverpool, specifically, in the early 1960s, was sufficiently distinct and influential to warrant an article on its own, without being subsumed within a wider and more general "Beat music" article. The term itself is widely used as a style of music. "Beat music" in its wider sense - incorporating the simultaneous genres/cultures in other parts of the world - is certainly entitled to have an article, but it shouldn't be this one. Essentially I think most of this article should be split off into "Merseybeat". Views anyone? Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The problem is: the term "Merseybeat" is ambiguous. Just put "Merseybeat" into the search field and you will get: Mersey sound. The article would end up being named "Merseybeat (musical genre)" or similar ... I'd prefer "Beat music". (E-Kartoffel (talk) 10:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC))

But "Beat music" is an extraordinarily wide concept, and "Merseybeat (musical genre)" could be a much more focused and more interesting article. I don't think disambiguation should be a problem. The current article falls between several stools in my view - it doesn't really say much about "beat music" in the wider sense, and makes some very odd statements like "The Liverpool accent has a role to play in the overall sound" - of Merseybeat perhaps, but not of "beat music". I'll bear in mind your comments - and anyone else who wants to chip in - but I'll also add it to my "to do" list as I think that the article could be much improved if it were split, changed around, and additional material (not lists) put in. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)