Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hollywood Sign 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 delete. Sr13 05:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Hollywood Sign in popular culture

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List of times an (albeit famous) sign has been seen in various media. A simple trivia collection, not permitted per WP:FIVE. --Eyrian 18:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as a list of trivia, unsourced and unmaintainable. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 18:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - just trivia at the moment, but can it not be ammended or merged? Someone's worked hard to compile this list :-(  Lra drama 18:46, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. All together now, people: "Culturecruft." Realkyhick 18:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Pure trivia collection - WP:5 Corpx 19:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. NHRHS2010  Talk  19:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Alter and Merge with Hollywood sign -Inventm 19:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Hollywood Sign seems appropriate. Canuckle 21:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment The nominator may also want to take a look atthe very similar article, World Trade Center in popular culture Calgary 22:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * LOL I take it that you don't want to be remembered as the guy who took down the World Trade Center in popular culture. Odd that you want the nominator to take on that task.  I think that one would get a lot of opposition. Mandsford 02:42, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Yes it is a famous sign but yes this list is not famous at all especially since it is listcruft, trivia filled and unsourced. We cannot throw a long list of appearences by this sign and this is completely failing the WP not a trivia collection criteria.--JForget 22:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's a laundry list of unsourced trivia loosely connected to this sign. It's iconic; we get it.  We don't need a list of every episode of S Club 7 where it shows up.  --Haemo 01:45, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Actually, the Hollywood sign (the one that consists of big letters on the side of a mountain) is seen often enough in film and televison that it is a large prop ranking up there with the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc. Thus, in 10.5 and the 1974 film Earthquake, the sign is shaken up; in Battlestar Galactica, cylons shoot at it; in films featuring the sign, it figures into the plot somehow.  Mandsford 02:37, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You must be reading a different list than I am because I'm seeing few if any examples from the article in which the sign figures in the plot. I see a lot of examples of the sign's being used as an establishing shot which, unless there isn't a single additional frame of film in the movie that indicates that the movie is set in Hollywood, has nothing to do with the plot. Add to that the items that aren't actually about the sign but are about other signs that look like the sign and we have another big pile of loosely associated junk. Delete. Otto4711 04:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Honestly, why does this exist? Yes, it's shown a lot in films and television, but that is something you can mention in one sentence on the Hollywood Sign page. CaveatLectorTalk 02:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Whatever I created this page to unclutter the main hollywood sign page, which at the time had a trivia/popular culture list spanning half the entry. I'm ok with delete as long as the stuff on the page is not added back to the main article. -Indolences 03:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete there are apparently no WP:RSes that this "pop culture" phenomenon is notable. Carlossuarez46 04:04, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just a list of things with no connection apart from the {trivial} appearance of the sign. Crazysuit 05:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all %SUBJECT% in popular culture lists, they are nothing but trivia and violate the five pillars of Wikipedia as well. Burntsauce 18:53, 26 July 2007 (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.