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 keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of bass guitarists[edit]

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This list seems redundant. We already have a category "Bass Guitarists", which is much easier to maintain individually than this huge, unreferenced list. I've removed a few entries that are not specifically known as bassists (like Courtney Love and Beck), then realized the whole thing is redundant and ought to go. Burpelson AFB (talk) 21:39, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Categories and lists are two complementary methods of organization, and they are both useful. ItThere is no policy calling for one or the other, or, indeed, preferring the one to the other. So there's no valid policy based reason for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 05:19, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per WP:CLN - lists and categories go hand-in-hand to aid navigation. Lugnuts (talk) 06:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Based on the above. Additionally, neither list is fully or effectively cross referenced. Both can be done better, neither can be done as well without the other as a complimentary tool, both from the perspective of the searcher or clean up editor. Whoever thinks they get brownie points for deleting articles; Stop! Think! Some people use WP to search for information. Deleting useful information does not help that pursuit.Trackinfo (talk) 07:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - for all the reasons expressed above by DGG. While the category serves its intended purpose well, it's also rather fragmented by several nested sub-categories, taking longer to navigate, and does not provide immediate details pertaining to each bassist's associated acts. The list provides a single alphabetised overview of all bassists, regardless of whether their genre, gender, or nationality is known in advance. -- WikHead (talk) 07:32, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per DGG. In this case, the list can do something which the category cannot, which is to add discriminating information to each entry, such as the band that the artist is associated with. It would take some work, but this would be great as a sortable table. Mandsford (talk) 13:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, acts as a complement to the category. Can easily be improved with references and other info such as nationality, genre, associated acts.--Beloved Freak 11:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - a lot of work and has a use (of sorts). can easily be expanded by those "in the know" but could suffer seriously by "additions" of every single bassist in a band...in which case it becomes a dangerous beast...--Stephencdickson (talk) 14:17, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anything can happen. Luckily, the same quality of Wikipedia that permits one group of people to create a dangerous beast allows another group of people to bring it back under control. Overall, Wikipedia's laissez-faire system works pretty well. Mandsford 20:09, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

right. Every list in WP is subject to this, some much more so than this is likely to be. Yhe normal rule, in any case, is for those people with a WP article--so we have yet another check--just look at all the musicians articles we delete here, at prod, and at speedy. DGG ( talk ) 04:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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