Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of punk bands
per Malinaccier and Twas Now.  Lists like this are important pieces of Wikipedia's list-based navigation system, ''and'' they provide the building blocks for better lists to be made out of them later.  According to '''''': ''lists may be enhanced with features not available to categories, but building a rudimentary list of links is a necessary first step in the construction of an enhanced list -- deleting link lists is a pointless waste of these building blocks, and unnecessarily pressures list builders into providing a larger initial commitment of effort whenever they wish to create a new list, which may be felt as a disincentive.''  Refs can be added to this list as they pop up in the punk band articles themselves.  Making a list maker provide all the refs, or wait until the articles have them before creating the list, seems like the wrong approach -- it hampers development of useful lists.  On the project-level (i.e., considering Wikipedia as a whole), it would be easier for all concerned if the references were provided at the article-level and then harvested by the listmakers
— User:The, 06:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CLS (Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates)