Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dagon 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 redirect to Dagon. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:55, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Dagon in popular culture

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Dagon in popular culture violates our policies regarding stand-alone lists, indiscriminate collections of information, trivia and the general notability guideline. The vast majority of the examples relate to H. P. Lovecraft's Dagon, who is discussed in Deep One. Since barely any of the examples are sourced, there is nothing to merge into that article. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 17:48, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, Popular culture,  and Religion. &#8213; Susmuffin  Talk 17:48, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another TV Tropes style list of largely minor trivia with no actual reliable sources or prose text discussing the topic. Muddling things even further is the fact that many of these examples are actually allusions to H.P. Lovecraft's interpretation of Dagon which, while very obviously inspired/based on the original, is a distinct topic from the original Semitic god that this list is supposed to be about. The main article on Dagon has a small (and unsourced) prose section on popular culture representations, but as this list is nothing but an WP:EXAMPLEFARM, there is nothing that would be appropriate to merge over. Rorshacma (talk) 19:10, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect - Rorshacma makes a convincing argument here, but I think it would be better served to just change the page into a redirect to the main article Dagon, so the page isn't deleted outright, but also the history of the page is preserved in the event that anyone wants to add the examples to the Dagon page's section on popular culture representation in the future. Historyday01 (talk) 19:51, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - unsourced trivia, most of it not even related to the actual historical deity. I wrote both most of the main article and most of these about deities related to Dagan (Shalash, Yakrub-El etc.) and even after all that I can't fathom why we need anything from the popculture article barring maybe the biology and astronomy trivia which do seem like a valid inclusion, if sourced properly. I really think we should leave the popculture-oriented approach to deity articles in the early 2000s, overall. HaniwaEnthusiast (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dagon. I agree with, the content should be preserved for future improvement, a redirect is both WP:CHEAP and a helpful search term. Daranios (talk) 19:48, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dagon. D4iNa4 (talk) 04:17, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dagon in the spirit of WP:PRESERVE. Fails WP:IPC as a stand-alone article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 03:41, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dagon per above 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 14:31, 22 August 2022 (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.