Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to A Clockwork Orange (3rd nomination)


 * 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   no consensus to delete. T. Canens (talk) 05:34, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

List of cultural references to A Clockwork Orange
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This list of cultural references is inappropriate because it is necessarily going to be a list of trivia and thus conflicts with the policy that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Almost none of the "cultural references" have any notability, and the cultural impact of A Clockwork Orange can be covered elsewhere without this unsourced list cruft. Anthem 07:53, 12 June 2011 (UTC) Revert AfD nomination of sockpuppet, see WP:Banning policy. Unscintillating (talk) 06:01, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup per WP:POPCULTURE. Tagged.&mdash;RJH (talk) 14:23, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no objections to an encyclopaedic article called Cultural impact of A Clockwork Orange or something similar, but I don't understand how this list of trivial "cultural references" would be of use in creating such an article. --Anthem 16:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

There are plenty of wikipedia pages that include a subsection called "references in popular culture". This page serves the purpose of this sub-section but in a separate page. If this page is to be deleted on the basis that it is a "list of trivia", then all those subsections on other pages should also be deleted. --Bigbadman (talk) 15:21, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  —  Meph talk 16:23, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Revert to something like this version and keep. The rename suggested above is also a good idea -- if it is not called "list", perhaps that slows down the cruft accumulation. —Kusma (t·c) 16:42, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 20:29, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as an inherently incompleteable trivia list. TallNapoleon (talk) 23:54, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Move This content, cleaned up as suggested by Anthem of joy, should be a "cultural references" section in the Clockwork Orange article. Mellie107 (talk) 00:19, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The reason that this list was originally split off is that it contains both cultural references to the book and to the film. In many cases it is clear that the reference is to the film (Bart Simpson in Alex costume), in others it is not (nadsat references). —Kusma (t·c) 05:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note Anthem of joy has been indef blocked as a sockpuppet of Claritas . --Tothwolf (talk) 02:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, but perhaps move to A Clockwork Orange in popular culture, and make it more of an article in paragraph format. -- Cirt (talk) 03:41, 20 June 2011 (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.