Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pop ballad
with a possible option of merging to ballad or ballad (music) to be determined by consensus obtained at the relevant talk pages. This is clearly a notable topic covered in reliable sources, as shown by searches on http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22pop+ballad%22 Google News Archive, http://books.google.com/books?q=%22pop%20ballad%22 Google Books, and http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22pop%20ballad%22& Google Scholar. The solution to |original research in an article on a notable topic is to replace the original research with research based on |reliable sources—not to delete the article. Even if "pop ballad" is not a genre, it is clearly a type of song within the pop genre, and is http://books.google.com/books?id=oC7G8geytz8C&pg=PA198&dq=%22pop+ballad%22+genre distinguished from ballads in other genres. To say that "pop ballad" doesn't deserve an article because we have articles on pop music and ballad is like saying we have articles on President and United States so we don't need the President of the United States article
— User:DHowell, 02:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:RS (Wikipedia:No original research)