Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mythical and religious beings appearing in fictional context


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The result was delete. -  Daniel Bryant  10:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

List of mythical and religious beings appearing in fictional context

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Ill-conceived, impossible to complete attempt to list all appearances of deities/mythical figures in fiction. The list is relatively short but that's just because it has received relatively little attention: in theory, this list should contain every myth ever written (and many times, cross-referenced under every character that appears in them). Even just having the monotheistic God on the list would make for a list that's too long: see Articles for deletion/List of appearances of God in fiction. As one comment said in the similar Articles for deletion/List of real people appearing in fictional context, this concept practically needs its own wiki to do properly. Mango juice talk 21:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 04:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, subject of the list is way too broad. As all myths are fictional and all fictional works can be considered a form of myth, this list essentially includes all characters found in fiction.-- TBC Φ  talk?  22:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment even though I agree with your vote, I want to point out that mythology collections are considered nonfiction. Using "fiction" to mean "untrue" is erroneous. A lot of categories of nonfiction are untrue. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 04:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete limitless list. JuJube 01:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Waaay too inclusive list, good nom. Wickethewok 03:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete way too broad to ever satisfy WP:LIST, and the subject is much better served by focused articles such as Werewolf fiction and Depictions of God in popular culture. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 04:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as indiscriminate collection of information and directory. Otto4711 20:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as too big to maintain, but it could potentially be broken up into a number of subjects, such as "Saints portrayed in film", "Saints portrayed in fiction", "Angels portrayed ..." "Mythical beings portrayed..." etc. Noroton 23:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I've taken a look at some of the links on the list, and there are whole articles devoted to "- in popular culture" for some of the items on this list and long sections in some of the Wikipedia articles for many of the others. This list hasn't been maintained well, and if it were, as has been said, it would be too long. For those few items that don't have " in popular culture" sections, I'm moving some of the information from here to those articles. Noroton 00:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete Is this a joke?--Sefringle 04:11, 15 March 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.