Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Krav Maga 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. -- Cirt (talk) 08:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Krav Maga in popular culture

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Almost unsourced trivial mentions. Amounts to nothing more than "Work X said Krav Maga" without explaining how it's influenced popular culture. Sources are unreliable, such as Mahalo and Youtube. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Query. These pop-culture articles seem to kept or deleted at whim.  I love 'em, but some hate 'em.  Did the community ever get to a standard or guideline for these, other than WP:GNG? Bearian (talk) 23:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * We have Verifiability, Neutrality, and No Original Research for starters. Read User:Uncle G/Cargo cult encyclopaedia article writing for what happens time and again to these "list of instances of XYZ on television and in film" articles. Then see Talk:Krav Maga,, , , and .  This is a classic example of sweeping bad content under the rug into a separate article.  The editor who did this even acknowledged that xe modelled this, in classic cargo cult article writing style, on another (bad) article, Muay Thai in popular culture. Don't be surprised if consensus here is to merge back into the not very long Krav Maga article, and we go around the cycle once again.  That regularly happens, too.  Merger has, indeed, . Uncle G (talk) 00:29, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:14, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: I'm with TPH; I would love to see the "significant detail" standard brought to these "X in popular culture" articles. IMHO, a factoid in a book, movie or video game along the lines of "I studied Krav Maga," without that being a significant plot element discussed in detail, is no less a trivial mention than the "Feral Fuming Ferret is playing at Paul's Mall tonight at 8, tickets $12 at the door" references which we consider invalid sources for establishing notability anywhere else.   Ravenswing  15:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete Per TPH and Ravenswing. Inappropriate contents (ie: nothing but random trivial mentions).  Them  From  Space  02:45, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivia. It's just a list of times Krav Maga is referenced in passing, which is entirely unencyclopedic. If the treatment of Krav Maga in popular culture could be shown to be notable in some way, then that might be a different matter.-- K orr u ski Talk 09:15, 17 December 2010 (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.