Deletion of List of R&B musicians

Comment: fails  no sources present to verify R&B musicians. Better off as a category
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: this is a case where a category is appropriate and a list is not.  doesn't apply to categories, which are not articles in the mainspace, but it certainly applies here.  Per , lists like this need to abide by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. This list fails  as sources aren't present that show that these people are indeed R&B musicians. It is also nothing but a |directory listing of information as it is only a laundry list without any further discussion or information about the participants.  How are they R&B musicians, where does it claim that they are?  Also, per the nom, this list is pretty |indiscriminate as there is no working definition of "R&B" that applies here.  The category works wonderfully, the list doesn't
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Listcruft (WP:LISTCRUFT||WP:STAND||WP:V||WP:DIRECTORY||WP:INDISCRIMINATE)

Comment: unmaintainable, unreferenced 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Listcruft (WP:LISTCRUFT)

Comment: Per DHowell. If half of the list is not R&B (if this claim is correct) that is a clean up issue, not a deletion issue. I do like the nominator's suggestion of making this list a category.  As is unfortunatly the norm in 99% of AFDs, I am troubled that the nominator never attempted,  or  before nominating this article for deletion. I suggest that if this article is kept, the closing admin suggest that the community go back and attempts to do the work to make this article a category, instead of deleting the entire article outright, as is being attempted here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Editing policy (WP:PRESERVE||WP:BEFORE)

Comment: because |lists and categories are complementary and should not be deleted in favor of the other. If "half of these artists" are not R&B, that means that half of them ''are''; the answer then is to edit, not to delete the whole thing. "Unsourced" is not a reason to delete especially when the articles for the artists themselves ought to contain references which confirm whether they are R&B musicians or not. List of electric blues musicians is a good example of what a list can become with proper care; on the other hand List of hip hop musicians is what can happen when a list is abandoned in favor of a category. Really, which of these makes Wikipedia more informative
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN)

Comment: This is exactly the purpose of lists, which are intended to co-exist with categories in synergistic fashion per . That sources should be added is a given, but the improvements required are rather simple. Above and beyond all reasons for retention, any AfD where any form of the word "cruft" is used as an excuse for deletion should be kept automatically
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN)