Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural depictions of T. S. Eliot


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The result was   delete. L Faraone  19:06, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Cultural depictions of T. S. Eliot

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Everything is wrong with this article, starting with the name. The article is not about "Cultural depictions of T.S. Eliot". It's about constructing an indiscriminate collection of every time that some snippet of dialogue or book or movie title or lyric was or sounds like or reminds some editor or another of Eliot, or something Eliot wrote, or something that sounds similar to something that Eliot wrote. Trivia magnet loaded with original research. Jerry Pepsi (talk) 02:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Obviously Eliot is a very important figure in modern culture, with whom many other things are connected.  However this article seems to go beyond the usual "in popular culture" article (which I guess tells us something about how someone or something is perceived by the population) to the area of WP:Original research. Kitfoxxe (talk) 07:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The article's name would indicate that this should be an essay on the legacy of Eliot that is best served at the Eliot article in a well-sourced 2-3 paragraph summary with encyclopaedic examples. This isn't an article and definitely isn't the article it should be. It's a crufty and random list of trivia regarding people who seem to think it confers intelligence and gravitas on them and their mediocre work by quoting Eliot or knowing of Eliot. 95% allusions have no substance other than that rationale. "Artist X quoted Eliot" is not encyclopedic and offers no substantive insight on the legacy of Eliot or his work.  Get rid of this shit per WP:HTRIVIA. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of other, lesser artists' vapid and vacuous misquoting and namedropping of famous men.--ColonelHenry (talk) 14:13, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Lesser artists like Nabokov, Waugh, Lessing, Achebe, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison? No-talent plagiarists the lot of them. --Colapeninsula (talk) 13:57, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
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