Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Redcaps 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)

Redcaps 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 Redcap (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 per blocked socketpuppet results. - Sockpuppet investigations/Flygongengar/Archive. -- Banj e  b oi   10:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge back into redcap, should never have been split. Folklore is just pop culture from another age. Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:46, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as a list of editor-chosen examples contrary to WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:OR. WillOakland (talk) 04:46, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak merge into redcap. A bit heavy on WP:OR and fails WP:CITE, which gets the "weak" from me. Nanowolf (talk) 08:21, 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 bound together by the new and novel concept that redcaps compose a significant part of popular culture. --Allen3 talk 10:23, 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. See Checkuser Evedince.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 16:29, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete this horribly-written content fork (filled with original research and speculation about what fictional monsters not specifically called redcaps are in fact redcaps) and redirect to the better written and appropriate redcap article.Bali ultimate (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Close per Michael, if not, Merge back to Redcaps. Ikip (talk) 18:14, 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.