Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese mythology 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   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 00:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Japanese mythology in popular culture

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Wikipedia is not for lists or repositories of loosely associated topics. The list is also a non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations of unrelated items as well as derived entirely in primary sources. Almost none of the content is even sourced and there is a extraordinaire high chance of original research and synthesis. See also WP:POPCULTURE —Farix (t &#124; c) 00:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 00:11, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 00:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 00:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. It looks like its all O.R. DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 11:07, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. The only real deletion argument I see here is that this is all unsourced OR.  "X in popular culture" articles comprise a large and longstanding topic (see extensive contents of Category:Topics in popular culture), many of which have passed through AFDs successfully, and there are many other ones similar to this one in Category:Mythology in popular culture.  So I don't think there is anything close to a consensus that this topic constitutes "a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization" (I see it as just a categorization - X in Y) or a "repository of loosely associated topics," and I don't see an explanation here as to why it should be viewed as such.  A valid, sourced article on (or list of examples of) Japanese mythology in popular culture is certainly conceivable, so the only question should be whether there is anything salvageable here, or whether it's better to just clear this and start over.  postdlf (talk) 16:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per Postdlf. I think it can be sourced.  I know something about Japanese culture, but I'm no expert. Bearian (talk) 18:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep if cleaned up notable topic for certain, current content is awful though and will need substantial cleanup and perhaps a full rewrite to be viable. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  02:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. The topic is clearly notable, as a few minutes' searching finds coverage of the influence of Japanese mythology on anime and manga (ISBN 9780812693638, p. 69), horror fiction (ISBN 9780595201815, various pages), Pokémon (ISBN 9780822332879, p. 17), science fiction and video games (, pp. 25–42). As with many of our "in popular culture" articles this one currently just lists examples rather than providing actual encyclopedic content about the subject, but the sources exist to allow that problem to be fixed by editing. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Clearly notable subject.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:35, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
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