Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Montgomery Burns' state of mind


 * 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. - brenneman  {L} 07:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Montgomery Burns' state of mind
Not only is the premise and title completely unencyclopedic and non-notable, massive fancruft like this unsourced list of every occurence of Mr.Burns' memory quirks and malapropisms opens the doors to all kinds of obsessively fannish lists. Similar lists could be made for every Simpsons character - and indeed, any fictional character anywhere - listing all the instances in which they display their trademark habits. wikipediatrix 19:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, the topic is adequately covered in Montgomery Burns -- Whpq 22:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for the same reasons Whpq said. Allisonmontgomery69 22:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Simpsoncruft. Danny Lilithborne 22:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, excessive fancruft. --Core des at talk. o.o;; 00:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete A separate page for a fictional character's memory lapses? Not appropriate for an encyclopedia.  --Joelmills 00:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Move This information used to part of the Montgomery Burns page until someone relocated it to a new page, why not just move it back again? Rusty2005 13:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The problem with moving it back agin is because of the content. Montgomery Burns' state of mind was created from Montgomery Burns because this content was too unwieldly, and made the main article unreadable.  But splitting off the minute trivial detail into a separate article was probably the wrong approach. What is really needed is some serious copy-editting to boil it down to its essence, and remove the list of references to all the instances of his memory lapses.  The section in the main article has achived this, and to merge all of this trivia back into main article would degrade the quality improvement. -- Whpq 14:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge back into Montgomery Burns, per Rusty2005's suggestion. --NeoChaosX 22:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge back into Montgomery Burns, per Rusty2005's suggestion. --Othersider 08:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I agree with Whpq: the Montgomery Burns article will be too long for Wikipedia style preferences if all this info is dumped back into it. It's more than sufficient to give two or three examples to show Mr.Burns' state of mind. We don't need to make it an ever-sprawling parlor game where readers try to think of every single instance in which Burns ever uttered an anachronism. wikipediatrix 15:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge back into Montgomery Burns, per Rusty2005's suggestion. I mean, really, he is, arguably, one of the most admired characters on the Simpsons. And the humor of his rapidly deteriorating state of mind is worth its own page. Lighten up, people.
 * 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.