The conscencus was met in a previous version of the talk page. It has undergone several clean ups. 
And again: This is not personal opinion. You can agree with the notion that a genre has certain characteristics, right? If there weren't such characteristics, we would not genre lable acts to begin with. Evanescence does not come close to sounding like gothic rock; yet because some journalist called them gothic rock, they automatically have a place in the "List of gothic rock bands"? You don't see how utterly retarded this is?