Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fan fiction terms (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   Move to Wiktionary. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  23:59, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

List of fan fiction terms
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Largely unsourced, un-encylopedic writing (especially in the lead), and the majority of terms defined totally fails notability. Notable terms have their own articles, as indicated by the lead. Goes directly against WP:DICTIONARY. No indication that issues raised in previous deletion debates have been attended to (and in all honsety I'm amazed it survived them). U-Mos (talk) 20:24, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Move to wiktionary 65.94.47.63 (talk) 05:56, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete or transwiki: Not only have the "issues" cited by the Keep voters in the previous AfD not been tackled in the last year and a half, I question what was the end result they had in mind? An indiscriminate, unsourced list of jargon dicdefs - many of which are unsourceable neologisms - be it ever so nicely spruced up and sourced out of the blue, does not belong on Wikipedia.  Period.  It belongs on Wikitionary.  It always did.   Ravenswing  06:34, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete or move As per above. I fail to see how this passes the very first sentence of WP:Dictionary Bstbll (talk) 06:57, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Send to Wiktionary where this stuff belongs. It doesn't belong here. Reyk  YO!  07:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 18:44, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Transwiki most of the text, but keep this article as a list of links to such Wiktionary topics, because these do represent a cohesive set of definitions. Of course, some of these still need sourcing. Jclemens (talk) 19:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep - this was just kept three months ago. I don't see consensus changing much less jelling anytime soon. Bearian (talk) 17:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC) My bad. Bearian (talk) 18:54, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Check your dates again. That keep was well over a year ago, not three months.--Martin IIIa (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * And that being said, as far as consensus changing? Err ... look at this discussion.  Other than your "procedural keep," there is in fact unanimous consensus that this article does not belong on Wikipedia.   ῲ Ravenswing ῴ  22:00, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Move to wiktionary Can't see this going beyond Dictionary definitions. AIR corn (talk) 06:08, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment There is precedent that glossaries are allowed. Which doesn't mean that we have to keep listcruft. Matchups 11:17, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Move to Wiktionary - As an avid reader and writer of fan fiction, I can testify that this article is a extremely useful and reasonably accurate resource. But Wikipedia is not the place for it, for reasons already mentioned above. Moreover, two previous deletion nominations have failed to motivate editors to bring the article up to standard. One editor even boasted in a previous AfD that "I am, off the top of my head, aware of three scholarly treatments of fanfiction published in academic presses... Well over half of these terms could readily be sourced to those three books alone... To say that this cannot be sourced requires the willful ignoring of so many sources as to be comical," yet in the over a year since that AfD was opened, he failed to produce even one new source for the article. Since not even the threat of deletion can prompt people to get this to resemble a proper Wikipedia article, moving it elsewhere is the logical course.--Martin IIIa (talk) 13:29, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Move content to Wiktionary and leave a soft redirect: I will admit that I do not have much experience over at Wiktionary, but there already is a page there titled "Transwiki:List of fan fiction terms." Therefore, I would recommend merging any content from the list here on Wikipedia that is not yet incorporated into the Wiktionary page with it, then removing the content from Wikipedia and leaving a soft redirect to Wiktionary in its place. I believe the definitions belong somewhere, but Wikipedia itself appears not the best venue. --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 09:12, 19 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.