Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster


 * 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   no consensus. Courcelles (talk) 01:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster

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This whole article, although perhaps well-intentioned, has become a repository for unsourced trivia of the worst kind. There is no encyclopedic treatment or commentary, it's just a list of mentions. At best, select and merge those worthy and sourceable sections to the main article, but meanwhile, this article does Wikipedia no credit. Rodhull andemu  22:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep The topic is notable. For example, see chapter 4 of The social impact of the Chernobyl disaster which is about Images of Chernobyl - Arts and the Public.  The rest is a matter of ordinary content editing in accordance with our editing policy.  Colonel Warden (talk) 00:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with the wise colonel... Johnfos (talk) 01:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That's all very well, as long as the article follows such principle. Presently, I doubt that it does. Rodhull  andemu  01:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:15, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing but trivia in here. An article on this topic may be acceptable if written in prose and compiled through material found in reliable sources which discuss the cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster, but an indiscriminate listing of every element of fiction that Chernobyl has made an impact on is beyond our scope.  Them  From  Space  10:14, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete This is what used to be called an "...in popular culture" article, and assuming that's what it was named before, then it needs to back to it if kept. At least the "in popular culture" tag was honest, but "Cultural impact of..." is pretentious and misleading and b.s.   This has nothing at all to do with any impact that the Chernobyl disaster may have had upon the way people lived afterward.  Certainly, it did have a major cultural impact upon the residents of Pripyat and other cities that had to be evacuated, but the sophisticated title doesn't change the fact that this is a list of comic books, TV shows and movies that either have a Chernobyl setting or mention it, in other words, an "in popular culture" article.  One could rename a rerun of Hee Haw as "Country Music Comedy Retrospective", but it would still be Hee Haw.  If kept, name it something realistic. Mandsford 14:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep To be valid, arguments for deletion must be based on the notability of the subject itself. The supposed inadequacy of the content of current version of the article may be an argument for other changes, not for deletion.--Sum (talk) 19:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sometimes, the problem with an article is the title, rather than the content. Honestly, does anyone see anything here that describes the "cultural impact" of the Chernobyl disaster?   This one really was called "Chernobyl in popular culture" until last year, and it's possible that someone hit the panic button when i.p.c. articles were being nominated, but this article is definitely not about the cultural impact of the Chernobyl disaster.   We have lots of good articles that use the conventional "in popular culture" name, and perhaps it's time for this one to go back to calling itself what it is, rather than to be pretending to be something that it isn't. Mandsford 13:01, 19 July 2010 (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.