Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Columbine High School massacre 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. ✗ plicit  03:32, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Columbine High School massacre in popular culture

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Another list(icle) of media in which an otherwise notable topic appears in. This is yet another violation of multiple policies and recommendations (multiple policies and guidelines (WP:IPC, WP:GNG, WP:NLIST, WP:INDISCRIMINATE,WP:TRIVIA, WP:OR, plus the just created WP:NOTTVTROPES). While mostly referenced and at least not failing WP:V, according to my BEFORE, this probably unrescuable, as this topic does not appear to have been covered before in a way that meets SIGCOV. A SOFTDELETE alternative might be redirecting this to Columbine_High_School_massacre, although that section is not very impressive. Nothing warrants merger, as this entire article is an ORish list of media mentions, without any analysis (i.e. reliable sources saying that depiction of the event in x is actually significant with regards to pop-culture). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  14:42, 10 May 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:51, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Crime, Popular culture, Education,  and United States of America. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  14:42, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Not satisfied with completely and persistently understanding WP:IINFO, you and TPH are now writing essays to try and enshrine your preferred interpretations? Jclemens (talk) 07:35, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTAFORUM, WP:NPA, WP:AGF... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:58, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * PS. By TPH do you mean User:TenPoundHammer? Shouldn't you directly ping them when you mention another editor, per best practices? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:25, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete standard example of WP:NOTTVTROPES. It was a tragic event, but not something where we need to list every time anyone even mentioned it. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:OR. If no reliable independent sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. Obviously the real-world event itself is verifiable in reliable sources, and suitable for Wikipedia. But an indiscriminate list of badly referenced mentions is not. There may be some secondary source that covers this in a way that would allow us to write a proper section, but there would be nothing from this article to WP:PRESERVE. Shooterwalker (talk) 02:01, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


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