Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bands from the Netherlands
The list certainly needs cleanup, but NorthAmerica1000 is correct that lists are not automatically deemed to |duplicate categories: there are situations where a list and a category rightly should both exist to ''complement'' each other. For example, Dutch musical groups are not all filed directly in {{cl|Dutch musical groups}}, but rather many are ''subcategorized'' by genre, city or province — which means that if you don't already know what genre a band is in and/or what particular part of the Netherlands they're from, you're going to have a hard time finding it through the category system. And accordingly, the list is the only available method of "one-stop shopping" ''all'' Dutch bands in one place. The list should definitely be pruned for redlinks — lists of bands are one of those topics where there's an exceptionally high risk of non-notable garage bands who will ''never'' have a Wikipedia article adding themselves to the list anyway as a form of self-promotion, so the list should rightly have tight inclusion criteria (e.g. only bluelinks, or redlinks permitted only if supported by a notability-showing source...although the latter is fairly easy to game with fake or non-RS references, ''especially'' when the "sources" are likely to be in a language that most users of en can't actually read, and thus may not be the best option here) — but needing cleanup is not a deletion reason in and of itself. If our category system were structured differently than it is, then lists might become redundant, but with the category system we do have they're not
— User:Bearcat, 16:07, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTDUP (Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates)