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The result was Rename. I'll move this to Background singer, over the existing redirect. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:06, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note here for clarity: through this entire discussion, all of the participants (including myself, mea culpa) completely missed the fact that even though background singer was a redirect to singer, a standalone article actually did exist about background singers at the title backing vocalist instead. Accordingly, the titles have now both been redirected to the existing article instead. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Uncredited background singer[edit]

Uncredited background singer (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Article which serves mainly as a list of people who did background vocals on songs without being officially listed as contributors. Many of the individual examples are referenced, albeit much more frequently to unreliable sources like fansites than to reliable source coverage in media, but what's lacking is sourcing to demonstrate that the concept of uncredited background singers is notable enough in its own right to warrant a separate article from the general concept of background singers. Yes, this happens, but there are no sources comprehensively analyzing its notability as a concept -- all this does is WP:SYNTH a bunch of discrete and otherwise unconnected examples, and thus it constitutes an act of original research to call this a notable thing. Bearcat (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:20, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -- fails WP:LISTN; this topic has not received attention from 3rd party sources. Basically, a collection of trivia. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:05, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. VH1,[1] The Daily Express,[2] NME,[3] news.com.au,[4] etc. have their own lists, while The Atlantic has an article about lesser-known ones.[5] (Ooga chaka, ooga chaka, ooga ooga ooga chaka.) Clarityfiend (talk) 07:19, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Possibly rename Background singer to widen the scope. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:57, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • I wouldn't object to renaming it. The core issue in this nomination had to do with whether "uncredited background singer" requires a separate article from the more general concept of "background singer", not with the notion that background singing would be an inherently invalid topic per se. Bearcat (talk) 00:44, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename Background singer is a redirect to Singing, so it can't be a redirect there. Moving this page to that location is the best option. Power~enwiki (talk) 02:02, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename to Background singer, as that subject certainly warrants an article. Whether that article should contain a list of all the uncredited background singers is another matter, but would be best discussed on the article's talk page. --Pontificalibus (talk) 14:27, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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