Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references in The Picture of Dorian Gray


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

List of cultural references in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Article that has been around since at least 2006 when split from the main article was prodded with the rationale: "Completely unsourced trivia". It is partially internally sourced. I'm not taking a strong stand on whether it should stay but be cleaned up or deleted entirely, but I think it needs discussion. Lady of  Shalott  21:40, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  Lady  of  Shalott  21:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete as prodder, everything here is unsourced and useless trivia. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as unnotable trivia. Somebody had way, way, way too much time on their hands and mostly decided to categorize every(?) character in the book as real or made up. This is about as useful for analysis as listing which pages start with "A" or "The". Clarityfiend (talk) 03:38, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete- excessive listcruft and original research. Reyk YO! 14:49, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - fun fact, the same editor who added all this information in 2005, had at one point created separate articles for each chapter of the book. It looks like once they realized their attempts to turn Wikipedia into CliffsNotes wasn't going to be welcome, they stopped editing the encyclopedia. &mdash;  Warren.  ‘ talk, 16:24, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yah, I reckon 2005 was kind of the tail end of Wikipedia's early years, when its purpose and scope was still not quite set in stone. Maybe back then a huge CliffsNotes analogue was still possible. But I'm glad we didn't go that way. Reyk YO! 17:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Listcruft. I'm sure that a similar list could be compiled for many novels; what is so special about Dorian Gray?TheLongTone (talk) 15:09, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


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