Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pop 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 Hip hop music. MBisanz ^talk 07:42, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pop rap

As is shown on the talk page, the debate over the deletion of this article goes back as far as 2004. But to be clear, the article is pretty much nothing but original research. And although I am familiar with the term "pop rap", when I Googled it, the only somewhat reliable link I found led to an AOL Music page that merely had a list of supposed pop rap artists with no definition of what pop rap actually is. (The rest of the Ghits I found led to message boards.) THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 01:08, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No definate information, mostly opinions. Borock (talk) 04:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It's not verifiable. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Hip hop music, merging some of the article if any of it can be sourced. This article does contain some information which, prima facie, appears correct and which doesn't appear in the target article. Certainly, though, without sources it does not belong in an encyclopedia and cannot support a standalone article at this point. If the article can be cleaned up and referenced I would not object to it being kept, but currently it is pure original research. ~ mazca ^t|c 17:15, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Further comment: I appreciate the slight rewrite and sourcing to Allmusic, though I'd still assert that more references to widespread use of the term to describe a specific genre of music would be preferred if we were to keep this as a separate article. A brief mention in Hip hop music in the form of a merge still seems a more appropriate place to discuss this unless I'm missing a lot of other sources. ~ mazca ^t|c 18:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - I agree with the previous editor, if references can be found, then Merge. Sephiroth storm (talk) 10:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Mostly an opinion piece WP:OR. JamesBurns (talk) 01:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Rewritten and referenced (diff) using Allmusic source. Much of the previous work was a plagiarised version of the source anyway. I recommend that the above editors review their decisions given the important changes. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, that's better, but more than one source would be nice. THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 17:05, 4 February 2009 (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.