Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assassins in popular culture


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 17:49, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Assassins in popular culture

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Poorly referenced "a list of depictions of the historical Assassins in later literature and modern popular culture", i.e. this is the usual list of media that mention the Order of Assassins. With trivia such as "MMORPGs have Assassins in them, referred in as a job or class", or "Corvo Attano from Dishonored is an assassin getting revenge on the people who conspired against him and framed him for murder", this mess fails WP:TRIVIA/WP:IPC, WP:NLIST, WP:GNG, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:OR. Further reading: WP:NOTTVTROPES. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 16:39, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Crime, Popular culture, Lists,  and Middle East. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  16:39, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete pointless article with no clear topic— the supposed subject is oddly specific trivia while “assassins” in general are an extremely common topic in popular culture. Dronebogus (talk) 20:53, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'd imagine there's potential for some form of discussion on fictional interpretations of assassins, but this is not that topic. This is simply a trivial collection of minor details that cannot be improved in any capacity. It should be deleted, and someone should explore actual analysis of the topic in the main article if they have interest. TTN (talk) 22:58, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete: The assassin is a basic stock character in fiction. Therefore, a list of them is inherently too broad to be anything other than an indiscriminate collection of information. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 23:14, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Yet another TV Tropes style list, simply listing times something appeared or was mentioned in a piece of pop culture without any meaningful discussion on the topic or any actual sources that do anything more than verify certain specific examples. Rorshacma (talk) 00:33, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Does not meet notability guidelines Proton Dental (talk) 03:48, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:UNVERIFIABLE, and otherwise not WP:NOTABLE. Severely lacking in sources. Even if some were found, this would need to be reconstructed without any of the WP:OR, and would be a completely different article. Jontesta (talk) 19:18, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Doesn't meet the notability guidelines but it lacks sources. TheresDifferentTime (communication • contributions) 18:14, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * 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.