Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brony (fandom)


 * 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   speedy delete, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:06, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Brony (fandom)

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This article is primarily a duplicate of a previously merged article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cult following into the main MLPFIM one. Given the size of the current MLPFIM article, there is no need to split out the section on the internet fandom. The contents of this article duplicate the existing content in the MLPFIM. Furthermore, by naming it via a neogolism, it makes it even more questionable as a split from the primary MLPFIM article. As the name is already disamb, there is no need to leave a redirect behind. M ASEM (t) 23:34, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * You are making an argument about the size of the main article. OK, but that doesn't mean anything. The television show Firefly has a section about it's cult status and fandom, along with a independent article called Browncoat that is similar in size as this is, along with being more poorly sourced at that. Browncoat had a deletion discussion and was closed as a keep. Flag of East Germany.svg Rainbow   Dash  (WikiBrony!) 23:40, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Because length is critical here. The Firefly article is about 3 times larger than the MLPFIM, but still manages to include most of the information on the fandom within it.  The Browncoat article you note had its last deletion review in 2007, which is an eternity - if it were to be brought to review today, it would likely be deleted or merged. We're not ignoring the fandom, but right now this is all we can say about it from reliable sources (I check this daily to see if more come along); its not very big, what we can about the show is not very big, and therefore, there's no reason to be splitting off any time soon. (We're at 38k, per WP:SIZERULE we shouldn't even be considering it.) --M ASEM  (t) 23:57, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * In that case, requesting speedy per G7. Flag of East Germany.svg Rainbow   Dash  (WikiBrony!) 00:09, 21 July 2011 (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.