Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of melodic death metal bands (2nd nomination)
or '''merge and redirect'''.  Per  just the existence of a category is no reason to delete a list.  In my opinion arguements that the list is 'subjective' while still holing that we keep the category (as per nomination, Fair deal and presumbly Peter Fleet) is nonsensical in my opinion as the same should therefore apply to the category, and the main article as well, so these should be deleted as well.  The arguement that the lists adds nothing is, in my opinion, a better arguement as I'd agree that at the moment it does not.  That said there is information in the main Melodic death metal article (and presumbly else where) that could make the list more like List of thrash metal bands and so wrothy of keeping.  The arguement then would be whether the list should be kept as a seperate article or merged into Melodic death metal.  Given the length of that article I'd suggest that merging is the most sensible option at the moment but that still means that List of melodic death metal bands shouldn't be deleted as a redirect to the appropiate section in the merged article would be appropiate .  Finally, it is my believe, that in general at AfD discusions the issue is whether the article ''could'' meet all wikipedia policies not whether it currently does.  Therefore the lack of extra information in the list is no reason to delete as I'm sure that such information could be found and added.  Given the number of editors and the young age of the article I feel reasonably confident that this would occur if the editors were guided in what was required - something that as yet they've not had a chance to do
— User:Dpmuk, 17:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CLN (Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates)