Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dubtronica (3rd nomination)
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- 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 Dub music. (non-admin closure) Left guide (talk) 01:41, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
Dubtronica
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Yeah, I'm nominating it again. This topic as it stands is a dictionary definition, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Despite claims that it is an established genere in the previous AfDs, no references have been forthcoming. It's satiricallly mentioned in some books, maybe here in there in amateur music reviews. But it's not really an established genre. Note the complaints on the article's talk page.
Tagged for two {{citation needed}}s since November of 2011.
After 19 years since the first nomination, let's get rid of it. -- mikeblas (talk) 22:14, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:32, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- Delete No significant coverage anywhere that I could find. RS only mention it in passing with no substantial information about the genre. Vladimir.copic (talk) 01:41, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- Merge with a redirect into the Fusion genres section of electronica, as indicated by the only source. Besides, we also have a branch of categories with musicians and albums - Category:Dubtronica, so the description needs to be kept somewhere. Solidest (talk) 10:07, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: Scattered mentions of the term, more than a few actually in Gscholar/Gbooks, but nothing extensive. The term is used, but I don't see anything beyond what's a DICDEF. Oaktree b (talk) 00:52, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to dub (or electronica). There are some links in, probably from a navbox, and Oaktree mentions some sourcing, but not enough for an independent article. I think folding it in would be fine, and at least preserve a redirect. Metallurgist (talk) 07:09, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Delete Did a search seems to be an extremely niche subsection of dub step and electronica--I think it can just be added to a page on electronica or dubstep instead because it doesn't seem to have enough sources to have a page on it's own Agnieszka653 (talk) 14:38, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to dub music, where it is mentioned, as an ATD. Like those above, I see a few references to the genre, but no substantial discussion of the genre itself. UpTheOctave! • 8va? 18:57, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to dub music as the clearly more relevant target. Devonian Wombat (talk) 22:05, 4 October 2025 (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.