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The result was deleteNearly Headless Nick {L} 12:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a terrible article about an alleged subculture, which is actually just a flattering name for 'trendiness'. I culled a vast chunk of original research from the article (which I can testify from personal experience is a load of crap: metal has not 'stagnated' with 'nu-metal' which isn't actually metal), and truth be told the 'criticism' section is original research too, although largely valid. What is left, then, is a definition which largely mirror that found in the 'urban dictionary'. There have not, as far as I can see from Google, been sociological studies of 'scene' as there have of goth, punk, metal, etc. In short, this is not a verifiable topic, it is probably just a slang word of a particular sort of trendiness, and hence not a valid subject for an encyclopedia article, belonging more properly to a dictionary The Crying Orc 21:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • The 'newer' version is indeed more encyclopedic: less POV about trendy 'emo' 'fashioncore' nonsense. Only, it is, as it stands, largely a pointless fork of the subculture article: while there is a semantic difference between the words 'scene' and the word 'subculture' (e.g. "I am part of the metal subculture but the metal scene is slowly dying"), clearing up this semantic difference is a job for the dictionary, not an encyclopedia. The Crying Orc 13:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have merged the content to Youth subculture Paul foord 10:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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