Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spider chord

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. Listed for 13 days with no arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. The issue of merging into a list can be discussed on the article's talk page. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:37, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spider chord

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Non notable guitar technique. An IP editor told me "Non notable? There are plenty of non notable techniques on wikipedia you ain't moaning about... retard)" Cynof Gavuf 11:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are several 'non-notable' techniques on Wikipedia. It is a valid technique and generally used in thrash metal, even today. A lot of guitarists still use this technique. Just because it isn't some mainstream rubbish like indie kids play, doesn't mean it isn't a well known and heavily used technique. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.103.60 (talk) 12:59, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, on the plus side, it's true: this is a real technique and people really do call that particular fingering "spider chord". So it passes WP:V. On the minus side, there isn't anything else to say about spider chords apart from what's already in the stub. I think that what we really ought to do is write a list called List of guitar techniques, which I'm interested to see that Wikipedia currently lacks. Then we should merge/redirect Spider chord to the newly-written list, which would allow us to keep this true and verifiable content without falling foul of WP:N.
I will contribute to the list if that's the consensus.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 17:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge - there's a video here which provides plenty of evidence that this is a real technique, and indeed shows how to do it:[1]. However, there may not be enough to say to justify having its own article, and I agree with S. Marshall that merging into a general list of guitar techniques may be better. Robofish (talk) 23:34, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe whether it is merged or kept that this technique should definitely be at least kept on Wikipedia. It is a very valid technique. Anyone questioning that is either someone who doesn't play (or at least know much) about guitar or is just someone who hovers over Wikipedia finding odd articles with little content to delete. As in the video posted by Robofish, this is a well known technique, YouTube is full of lesson videos on how to learn it and simply Googling it returns thousands of results.

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (or Merge if possible) This has been proven to be a real technique. If possible, it should be merged, if a space in which it would fit is indeed existent. ~BLM Platinum (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2010 (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.