Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manticore 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   Procedural close, created by abusive sockpuppet. However, the concerns raised in the legitimate other opinions should be adressed, probably best by merging this article back. Otherwise, a new AfD may be the best solution. Fram (talk) 19:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Manticore in popular culture

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I nominated this article for several reasons. The most pertinent being that the article is nothing more than a a list of useless trivia. Entries relating to popular fiction should be about how that subject impacted popular fiction with one or two notable examples. The article itself was even made in bad taste without proper discussion on the Manticore (which was not overly long), and the author making the page without listing citations. If notability can be established for this article as is, then by all means keep it, otherwise I believe the article itself should be deleted with a few notable examples being merged back into the main page.Hyacinth99 (talk) 21:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)  — Hyacinth99 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Struck comments of blocked sockpuppet per Sockpuppet investigations/Flygongengar/Archive. -- Banj e  b oi   10:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge back into manticore, should never have been split. Much of mythology and Folklore is are largely pop culture from another age. Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as a list of editor-chosen examples contrary to both WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:OR. WillOakland (talk) 04:52, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge back into manticore. 76.66.202.139 (talk) 05:29, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. Unbounded and unsourced list of I-spy trivia bound together by the new and novel concept that manticores compose a significant part of popular culture. --Allen3 talk 10:25, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy Close per this AfD initiated as an attack edit by User:Hyacinth99, a now indef-blocked sockpuppet of User:Flygongengar bring. See Checkuser Evedince.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 16:27, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy close per Michael, if not Merge to Manticore. Ikip (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge into Manticore but verify. I suspect sources could be found to address WillOakland and Allen3's concerns, perhaps e.g. Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide by Malcolm South. I find the statement "Manticores appear frequently in fiction" in the article amusing, because it is a fictional creature, and thus that is where one would expect to find it. Шизомби (talk) 19:07, 15 May 2009 (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.