Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of references to Xanadu in popular culture


 * 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. Sr13 07:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

List of references to Xanadu in popular culture

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WP:NOT loosely associated topics and indiscriminate information - a list of anything in the world that contains the word "Xanadu". Plus, someone said a sentence containing the word "Xanadu" in an episode of Veronica Mars once. Crazysuit 23:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is the closest I have ever come to using the word "listcruft", which is a rationale I can't stand. In fairness, anything worth mentioning in the Xanadu article should be merged thereto, and the list deleted. It is just an unmaintainable, unreferenced list of trivia. - Zeibura (Talk) 23:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nom
 * On Wikipedia did thee,
 * A stately rationale decree:
 * Where a list, most faulty, did'st stand
 * To be deleted by thy hand,
 * And ne'er again to see.
 * Haemo 02:06, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete poetically, per Haemo   Buck  ets  ofg  02:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, OR, violates WP:TRIVIA. Corvus cornix 03:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is irrelevant trivia. -- Charlene 03:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Not the place to document every time a city/town is mentioned in a book/tv show/movie etc Corpx 07:32, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. I created this article. All I did was move a trivia section away from an article. The Xanadu article was half information about Xanadu and half information about references to it. Which I think was unbalanced. The fact is however Xanadu has a lot of references in popular culture, which wikipedia should not overlook. I think this article could be re-written, perhaps made into "Xanadu and Kubla Khan in popular culture" which discusses the cultural reception of Coleridge's poem and the idea of Xanadu developed therein. Note that these articles are not uncommon, check out Category:In popular culture with similar, though more developed, lists such as List of Dungeons & Dragons popular culture references, Citroën DS in popular culture, Soviet war in Afghanistan in popular culture. C mon 08:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Trivia sections are generally looked down upon, as mentioned in WP:TRIVIA.  I think removing a bloated trivia section instead of expanding its contents to a new article would've been more appropriate.    As for the "...in popular culture" articles, which in my opinion, aims to catalog everything that's mentioned in movies/tv/books, see these Articles for deletion/Teaching in popular culture, Articles for deletion/Leprechauns in popular culture (2nd nomination), Articles for deletion/Yōkai in popular culture, Articles for deletion/Lobotomy in popular culture, Articles for deletion/Turtles and tortoises in popular culture, Articles for deletion/Gorgons and Medusa in popular culture.   Most of the "...in popular culture" items are on their way to deletion.  Corpx 08:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Moving a large unsourced section out of one article into its own article doesn't make it any less unsourced and OR. Corvus cornix 15:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete The trivia section should have been crunched to a fraction of its size, not moved someplace where it will grow even further out of control. Greg Grahame 12:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. Most of the information here is utterly irrelevant and non-notable, and the little which is is already listed at Xanadu (disambiguation). Terraxos 21:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom & ample precedent. Carlossuarez46 23:53, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete another trivia list article. Maybe some merge to Xanadu--JForget 00:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 12:13, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


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