Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Culture of the 1980s


 * 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. Consensus holds that all three articles are so vaguely defined that they are inherently based on personal opinion and fundamentally violate WP:SYNTH. ~ mazca  talk 16:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Culture of the 1980s

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These three pages have a whole range of problems, some fixable by much editing, some IMO unfixable. The major problem I have is that the division in decades is purely artificial. There is no culture of the 1980s. There are cultural phenomona which were popular or new in 1984, and some which were popular from 1977 to 1982, and some which spanned three decades, and some which were popular in country X in 1999 and in country Y in 2000. There is not one worldwide culture. The dividsion is not only artificial, the scope ifs also way too big: all culture, from all over the world? Currently, the three articles focus almost exclusively on popular, Anglophone culture. Very little art, design, literature, ..., and very little about other cultures.

The choice of what to include and what not is totally POV based, and (certainly in the case of the 2000s) we obviously lack the distance needed to give a neutral, complete image. Art in the 2000s is: a statue of Britney and Lego Brickfilms? These articles will never be a true encyclopedic description of a clearly defined topic, but a dumping ground for all kinds of everything without much structure or coherence. Let's get rid of them. Fram (talk) 11:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Also nominated:
 * Culture of the 1990s
 * Culture of the 2000s


 * Delete all. Really just WP:SYNTH. Taking links from a bunch of existing articles, adding some commentary and calling it a new article. It all reads like a VH-1 special. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all interesting read, but all fundamentally violate WP:SYNTH. - 2 ... says you, says me 15:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete all. I also had consideration to nominate this myself. Too vague as stated by the nominator and this is more like a indiscriminate list of pointless celebration of whatever decade. Donnie Park (talk) 22:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Keep the Culture of the 1990s article. Much of its sources are credible, and out of all three, it is the most encyclopedic and organized. Delete the 1980s and 2000s counterparts; much of their knowledge is unsourced, POV, and in list form. (Tigerghost (talk) 12:11, 22 July 2009 (UTC))


 * Delete all. A selective and distinctly United States-based list of both notable and non-notable trends and events, often citing the authors opinion and rarely substantiating claims of rise, peak and decline in trends. Also poisoned by horribly summarized versions of already-existing articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.213.243.129 (talk) 22:10, 22 July 2009 (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.