Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SM Rookies
to S.M. Entertainment. Though most of the information doesn't even belong here or the label article in the first place, but the group's or individual singer's articles. "Pre-debut" has become a pretty terrible neologism in K-pop beyond its dictionary definition and is really just a marketing ploy (Kard (band)|Kard released several singles since 2016 and just "debuted" this past July? Suuure...). The trainee system is a peculiar scheme in South Korean and Japan that is worth noting, but anything beyond a simple list falls into an |indiscriminate |fan-factoid mess
— User:Explicit, 01:13, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:FAN (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)