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The result was delete‎. No consensus on whether or not there should be a Redirect. That can be discussed or be BOLD. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:14, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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non-existent genre FMSky (talk) 01:39, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. FMSky (talk) 01:39, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you Google this term, you will see it is in use. Plenty of YouTube hits on my Google Search. When you do search, however, results for Cottagecore (which is also referred to as countrycore apparently) also appear, mixed in with the countrycore music results. If this is not a viable article, then I suggest redirecting this somewhere, whether it be to country rock, heavy metal, or cowpunk, as this term is used to describe a music genre. How it's described is now up in the air as this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RUgJ6XkDhE uses the hashtag Metalcore, suggesting countrycore may have a metalcore influence apparently.

Then there's this: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Music_Sound/kXyFAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Countrycore%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT396&printsec=frontcover

It states countrycore may be in use, but without a clear meaning. It also lists other stuff like gospelcore, discocore (this would probably be used, alongside dancecore, to refer to hardcore punk influenced dance-punk imo) celticore, indiecore (which does currently redirect to mathcore), etc. Some of those terms besides indiecore exist as redirects on here.

Hopefully somebody can help out here. Moline1 (talk) 02:04, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Terrible sourcing, for instance The New York Times piece doesn't even have the four letters "core" in it, let alone "countrycore". The Metal Talk article is not even signed, so we have no idea whether the anonymous author has expertise in this topic. I'm not seeing any strong indication from Google searches that this is a topic. Binksternet (talk) 05:09, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above, and WP:NOTNEO. Sergecross73 msg me 16:02, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect. Could this be redirected perhaps? If there's enough info to show this term is in use, but not enough for an article, we could redirect it to a page such as country rock, cowpunk, heavy metal, or hardcore punk. Of course, let's let some other users chime in first to determine whether a redirect would even be suitable for this article. If a redirect is not supported, then I'll change to Delete. Moline1 (talk) 17:01, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be a redirect, unless it's something minor like an alternate name/spelling of something (it's not) you'd need a reliable source that very directly verifies and connects the term "countrycore" to any of your proposed redirect targets. Without that, the content in the article would would fail WP:V and WP:OR, and be removed. And without any mention in the article, redirects are just deleted. Sergecross73 msg me 17:18, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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