Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references on The Simpsons


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

List of cultural references on The Simpsons

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I don't mean to disrespect the creator, but the idea of having *one* list for all cultural references ever shown on the Simpsons, is in my opinion not a good idea. Each episode must have at least five cultural referecens, so the list will quite simply get too long. It is a much better solution to add these to the episode articles. --Maitch 15:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. --Maitch 15:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Five? Fifty is closer. Each reference can be dealt with in its episode article. Having a list for them would be akin to "List of objects used to hit people in Martial Law ".  yandman  15:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete definitely, per nom. Madmedea 16:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete If this were even remotely close to complete it would be huge and unwieldy, it's probably best to stop it here. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  16:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, it is actually a much better solution not to try to document minutiae at all unless someone else has already commented on it. Since there appears to be no editorial will to do so in the individual articles, I cannot support trying to collate it here. This far and no further. -- nae'blis 19:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Andrew Lenahan. This is the sort of topic that could be its own wiki, not its own article. (See The Simpsons Archive at http://www.snpp.com for the kind of site I'm thinking of, although it's not a wiki.) --Metropolitan90 20:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Unneeded, these can be covered in their respective episodes. -- Will Mak  050389  20:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to be unmanageable Dugwiki 22:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Needless waste of bandwidth. As the creator of the page, I absolutely do not take offense to its being recommended for deletion. I agree that it would quickly become unmanageable, and that a better solution would be to not to try to document minutiae at all. I created this page as a as peaceful gesture, in response to what seemed to be an unreasonably large number of references to The Simpsons in articles (such as this one) which otherwise have nothing to do with series. Comme le Lapin 23:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Same as Subject matter in South Park and it is a well constructed article. If it gets to that quality everyone will be satisfied.  Lajbi  Holla @ me  23:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Violations of WP:V and WP:NOR would consist an overwhelming majority of the material if this was complete. This will also hardly beget good prose. '  (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 03:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete' per everyone except Lajbi. JuJube 04:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: There are way too many in every episode to even begin thinking about putting them all together in an article like this. As it is, certainly, it is not providing much information, and any expansion of this will always result in something incomplete. It would be far better to drive up the standard of all of the article episodes by including this kind of information (if it is indeed encyclopaedic - would it not be original research, in many cases?) in them. --John24601 18:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


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