Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Life debt


 * 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. Yunshui 雲 水 11:25, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Life debt

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Wikipedia isn't TVTropes. There's no significant reference material about the concept of a "life debt" and this is just an original research dicdef. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 00:32, 31 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - Nothing but original research, and there's no significant coverage of such a concept, or even proof that the term exists outside of Star Wars. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:56, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Original research. And, actually, the TV Tropes page is much better. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 04:52, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete – The "life for a life" or "I owe you my life" trope is extremely widespread and it seems silly to contemplate gathering all of the places where it has been used into an article. At a minimum, this article needs to be blown up and restarted (possibly under a new title) to discuss this general theme and any scholarly attention it may have received. We encounter it most often in fiction sources; is there evidence that some real cultures had a variant? question asked on stackexchange-history For now, though, this article needs to go.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 07:10, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per the StackExchange link found by User:jmcgnh, which demonstrates well that IF this concept occurs outside of fiction and IF such a thing has been documented elsewhere, the documentation of it is hard to find, and we don't have it yet. Vadder (talk) 14:46, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom; this is TVTropes material and there are no references that suggest otherwise. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 05:38, 5 June 2018 (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.