Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fan elite


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 05:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Fan elite

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Severe NPOV violation. Barely falls short of speedy deletion as an attack page, because it doesn't attack a particular person. YechielMan 00:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. Aplomado  talk 00:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and WP:NEO (630 GHits, mostly due to the name of a newsgroup). Unencyclopedic page complaining about fancruft; I guess that makes it fancruft-cruft. cab 01:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There's a definite agenda being pushed by this article as it currently stands. However, the phenomenon of elitism in various fields of fandom is documented.  ISBN 074861995X discusses elitism in the fandom of Japanese horror films, for example.  ISBN 0415078202 discusses fandom itself as a form of elitism (fans being an elite when compared to ordinary consumers).  ISBN 0415192048 discusses E.E. "Doc" Smith's assertion that science fiction fans are superior to the casual reader, who "does not understand science fiction".  There's an article to be had on the subject of elitism in fandom.  But this article isn't it.  This article requires rewriting from scratch, and a better title to boot. Uncle G 01:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Looks like your sources are well on the way to starting that article, Uncle G.  I say this with great respect: I never would have found any of that. YechielMan 02:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Article is not written in an encyclopedic manner, not referenced no interwikis and fails WP:NOT. Telly   addict Editor review! 16:28, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per Uncle G, there could be an article about elitism in fandom under some other title (I suggest the search phrase "fans are slans" as well).  I don't think the current article will be any help in writing that one, though.  &mdash;Cel  ithemis  20:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That's already covered at Slan. Uncle G 00:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. If anyone can produce sources on the topic, then keep. Otherwise, it'll sadly have to be delete. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HisSpaceResearch (talk • contribs) 21:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC).
 * Delete doesn't seem encyclopedic. Jefferson Anderson 21:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete original research and unverifiable. --Farix (Talk) 21:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The germ of an interesting topic for an article is present, but right now the scent of OR is too strong, and there are no adequate references. Perhaps in its next incarnation this article will be a keeper, but not now. WMMartin 18:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


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