Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clark Ashton Smith deities


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The result was redirect to Cthulhu Mythos deities. See also Articles for deletion/Brian Lumley deities. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 14:29, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Clark Ashton Smith deities

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Fails WP:LISTN. All current sources are primary. A WP:BEFORE search turns up unreliable websites, primary source books, a self-published source, and one article on this subject on Tor.com. More is needed to demonstrate this passes WP:LISTN. Hog Farm (talk) 19:31, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm (talk) 19:31, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete, no indication that this bloated in-universe list of deities that just so happen to have been created by a specific author passes LISTN. Devonian Wombat (talk) 00:51, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NFICTION and WP:LISTN. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:28, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge/Hold This list ties into List of Great Old Ones, a higher-ranking topic which is also currently under discussion. I ask to hold off a decision here, until one is reached about the List of Great Old Ones, and treat it as a subtopic of List of Great Old Ones/Cthulhu Mythos deities. Daranios (talk) 10:50, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete none of these deities are mentioned in third party sources. The works of H.P. Lovecraft have achieved a great deal of third party coverage, as have some of those fictional creations. But once you get this far from the source, it becomes impossible to find third party coverage for these minor characters. If someone wants to add a proportional amount of primary-sourced material to another notable article about the fiction itself, that would be the way to do it, if a suitable and notable target can be found. Shooterwalker (talk) 18:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: That is not correct, I could find a number of short mentions to longer statements in third party sources looking for Abhoth and Tsathoggua in Google Scholar, some of these are however in foreign languages: Playing with Power, L’univers fantastique de Clark Ashton Smith, Icons of Horror and the Supernatural, Slime Dynamics, Enciclopedia de los Mitos de Cthulhu. And there are more. And that's not yet looking for every entry in this list. I as those who wanted to delete to reconsider based on the number of sources. Daranios (talk) 20:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)


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