Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional conspiracy theorists


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 20:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

List of fictional conspiracy theorists

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Any list that includes both Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes and Fox Mulder has to be suspect. I'd say this unsourced list runs afoul of WP:ISNOT, it isn't doing much to contribute to the state of human knowledge. Vrac (talk) 14:29, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete – Fails WP:LISTCRUFT #C9 "Determining membership of the list requires adoption of a non-neutral point of view, and reliable sources for avoiding it are not available." From the article List of Sgt. Frog characters, it's hard to say why Fuyuki Hinata should be considered a conspiracy theorist. Is there a source for that? – Margin1522 (talk) 17:49, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-defining and subjective traits, even if BuzzFeed published a "top 20 fictional conspiracy theorists" list. Pointing to the strips where Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes is a conspiracy theorist is either OR or trivial, or both. I don't think it should even be made into a category, (see Category:Fictional characters by occupation), since "conspiracy theorist" is not generally considered an occupation, and there is no equivalent category for real people, unlike Category:Fictional plumbers.
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