Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waacking

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Mediran ^{talk to me!} 09:56, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Waacking

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Delete The only references to this so-called style of dance are found on one badly-designed (looks like a Freewebs site) website. Wikipedia is not for things you made up with your friends one day. Tikuko 21:08, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I found evidence here, here (minor mention through a dancer) and here. The first and last link here indicate it was popularized by Soul Train. Although this last link talks more about a group called Outrageous Waack Dancers than the dance itself, it may help the article though it may only stay a stub. Google News found additional evidence here (describes it as a street dance and was born through underground disco in Los Angeles) and here (describes it again as a street dance). Moving to archives, I found this and here both mentioning Kumari Suraj, "a pioneer in the hip-hop form known as “waacking,”. All this information together including its appearance through So You Think You Can Dance, a well-known program in the dance world, this article may have potential. SwisterTwister talk 22:04, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, good deal of secondary source coverage. — Cirt (talk) 17:12, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Sourcing is not significant.--Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 23:06, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This was given extensive coverage over two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance, a national prominent US dance competition, I think the nation's most prominent dance venue at the time. Insomesia (talk) 01:07, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - An entire article about it from Ebony magazine. Perhaps localized to African-American community, so sourcing may not be very widespread. --Noleander (talk) 21:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:56, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.