Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maine 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:21, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Maine in popular culture

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Excessive unreferenced pop culture trivia that's heavily reliant on frivolous entries only slightly related to Maine, such as "Red vs. Blue, a comic science fiction video series, features a character named Maine". Waxworker (talk) 18:31, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maine-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Pure trivia.TH1980 (talk) 21:25, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:SALAT as too broad. (Nobody tell Jessica Fletcher, lest we end up writing about Murders, She Committed.) Also delete Rhode Island in popular culture. Just being the setting for various works is rather indiscriminate, especially a whole state (even a runt like Rhode Island). Clarityfiend (talk) 21:26, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm sympathetic to the concerns put forward in the nomination, and would have absolutely no objection to culling unreferenced/non-notable mentions. However, the presence of such entries does not require deletion of the whole list to address. Similarly the concern of scope could be addressed by setting inclusion criteria and does not require deletion. We have an awful lot of "Place" in popular culture articles - perhaps a centralized discussion on inclusion would be useful? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:14, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * If you look closely at those categories, you'll see that the ones that aren't umbrellas for subcategories are much more focused, e.g. individual cities, not something as nebulous as this one. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep This is a significant list of books, films, and TV shows set in Maine and should be kept for media studies students and researcher use. BrikDuk (talk) 17:36, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment I think it could be kept if the inclusion requirements were better defined as "Maine as a location in fiction" and the tangent stuff like the 'character named Maine' example was removed, it would be more appropriate. The lede even says "has been the setting of", so I think some of the examples should be culled. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * It used to be in Maine with a template pointing to Manual of Style/Trivia sections. Rather than address that, the entire section was swept under the rug into this article (Special:Diff/732758211), and the notice was not transferred to the new article (Special:Permalink/732758165).  This is a process that happens over and over, as you can see from User:Uncle G/Cargo cult encyclopaedia article writing, and time and again the sweep-under-the-rug "in popular culture" articles come to AFD, as they have been for roughly a decade and a half now.   Many get deleted.  A few get refactored.  Some go around a cycle.   is currently on its second loop.  Uncle G (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete This amounts to a collection of trivia. We need to stop such things in Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:16, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - The article is essentially a list, and as it stands, it does not pass WP:LISTN. There are not really any valid reliable sources currently being used, and I did a couple of searches, and was not really able to find anything that covers the concept of Maine in pop culture as a whole.  Rorshacma (talk) 23:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)


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