Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eiffel Tower in popular culture (3rd nomination)


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 23:16, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Eiffel Tower in popular culture
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An indiscriminate list of works that mention the Eiffel Tower, mostly unreferenced. For many entries the Tower doesn't even play a significant role, it just appears at some point. I am not seeing any reliable work that discusses this topic. TVTrope-like WP:TRIVIA that fails WP:NLIST (and WP:GNG). PS. The prior AfD from 10 years ago suggested that the topic could be rewritten into a prose-like analysis, some reliable sources were even listed, but this hasn't happened, so WP:TNT applies as well. (Sadly, I couldn't even confirm that the Famous works of art in popular culture: a reference guide covers this topic, the snippets I see discuss the history of the Tower, but not its representation). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  12:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  12:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:58, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment The thing is iconic, I don't see why we need a list of every time it pops up in a media item though. Oaktree b (talk) 15:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete (or Draftify) - While the topic is likely notable, the current text is just a TV Tropes style listing of every time it has shown up in a piece of media, no matter how minor or unimportant its appearance actually was. As stated by one of the only pieces of legitimately sourced information in the introduction, that is basically going to include every piece of media that has any scene set in Paris. While there should be no prejudice against rewriting or creating a new article on the topic in an actual reliably sourced, encyclopedic manner, the current article should not remain in the main space until that happens, just due to its potentially notable title. Rorshacma (talk) 16:01, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Largely original research, indiscriminate list and example farm. Any sourced info can be further expanded in a section of Eiffel Tower without requiring its own article. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:59, 29 March 2022 (UTC)


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