Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional companies in cinema


 * 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. This isn't an encyclopedia article, nor are the items on it, with a few notable exceptions, candidates for inclusion on their own merits. Absent secondary sources discussing this phenomenon, a list of unecyclopedic items is, well, unecyclopedic. Editors arguing keep have not engaged this question. Mackensen (talk) 02:06, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

List of fictional companies in cinema

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Unsourced, trivial list of companies (when appeared only 1 time). This was originally a section in another article. RobJ1981 06:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom; a bad list. Shalom Hello 11:55, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. M.V.E.i. 15:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - directory of loosely associated topics. Otto4711 18:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep (and maybe merge) per (and to) Articles for deletion/List of fictional companies (2nd nomination). --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 14:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, perhaps merge fictional companies into a single list. older ≠ wiser 02:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep a good way to begin to deal with a much more problematic article. DGG (talk) 01:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No, a good way to deal with this (and that) problematic article is to recognize that Wikipedia is not a directory of every single time that a passing reference to a non-existent compay is made in every movie ever. A good way to deal with it is to get over the notion that these endless lists of trivia are in any way valuable or encyclopedic. Otto4711 13:57, 2 September 2007 (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.