Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Security Agency 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. ✗ plicit  13:16, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

National Security Agency in popular culture

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This articles as the same problems as the recently deleted Articles for deletion/United States Navy SEALs in popular culture and Articles for deletion/Delta Force in popular culture (and the ongoing Articles for deletion/Defense Intelligence Agency in popular culture). Mainly: "mostly unreferenced TVtropic listcruft." Like them, it fails numerous policies, guidelines and like: as an 'in popular culture' article, WP:IPC and MOS:POPCULT/TRIVIA, as a list, WP:NLIST and WP:SALAT, as a potential topic, WP:GNG and  WP:INDISCRIMINATE, due to lack of references, WP:OR and WP:V. My BEFORE failed to find anything useful to even start rewriting this, plus WP:TNT applies to the current OR list of trivia ("In the comic book XIII, the hero (whose name is not certain) is constantly tracked down by the NSA."). This type of content is not encyclopedic - it's pure OR that belongs at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/NSA Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:07, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Military, Popular culture,  and United States of America. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  10:07, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTTVTROPES. Follows the same problems as those articles in being indiscriminate and unsourced. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and TPH. Intothatdarkness 14:41, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete due to this being overwhelmingly WP:OR, and our policy says If no reliable independent sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. Over time, a WP:CONSENSUS has emerged that this is the appropriate way to handle similar WP:OR, as seen with Articles for deletion/United States Navy SEALs in popular culture, Articles for deletion/Delta Force in popular culture, and Articles for deletion/Defense Intelligence Agency in popular culture. Shooterwalker (talk) 16:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)


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