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Attention: Potions in Harry Potter will be placed for AfD on June 4, 2016
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In November of 2007 Potions in Harry Potter was deleted as a the result of a deletion discussion due to its failure of WP:FICT, WP:PLOT, WP:WAF, and other issues. On June 4, 2015 the article was recreated from content then currently existing on the Magical objects in Harry Potter article. A discussion followed regarding the appropriateness of the recreation. An attempt was made to return this article to a redirect, which was undone a day later. Some months later, a notice was placed on the article's talk page indicating the article would be placed for deletion. A few days ago, the article was placed for proposed deletion. This too was undone.

Throughout the history of the article, which spans more than a decade, it has never had any references. It has always been written in in-universe style. No outside universe perspective has ever been provided. As of June 2016, it will have been tagged for both of these problems for a year. I have asked, begged, and pleaded with people to rewrite this article to no avail. As the article stands (and has always stood), it continues to fail WP:FICT, WP:PLOT, and WP:WAF. There have been suggestions to merge the content back to Magical objects in Harry Potter, but this completely fails to address the failures noted. Where the content exists, either in its own article or as part of another, matters not. The issue is the content itself.

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Yes, well, the problem with your rather dogmatic claim and viewpoint is that data you prefer is absolutely out of date (by 7 years!) and thus inaccurate: the school in question is now a combination of two schools, with nearly double the previous enrollment. But by all means, carry on with your preference for inaccuracies and ignore the principles of WP:IAR as you wish. It is your privilege to swim in the bliss of ignorance. T-dot ( Talk/ contribs ) 22:33, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

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