Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to the board game Risk 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. Krimpet (talk) 06:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

References to the board game Risk in popular culture

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a trivia fork based on a few mentions of a board game, not notable enough for it's own article. Was previously deleted as a prod. Biggspowd 19:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into Risk. Popular culture is commonly a section of an article. Don't see why this would need a separate article.  Citi Cat  20:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Easy Merge -- Y not? 22:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - indiscriminate list and directory seeking to capture every mention of the game in any medium with no regard as to its omportance or triviality. Drew Carey tried to get his friends to play in one episode. Not really the sort of thing that need to be in an encyclopedia, now is it? Otto4711 22:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Move to Risk talkpage until sourced; merge into Risk (game) as items get properly sourced. Per Handling trivia (an essay possibly being moved to a help page), all trivia must be sourced just like any other content.  Risk is more well-known than almost any other commercial boardgame, so it has garnered a bunch of "... in popular culture" references that might have been important to the plot of a single episode of a sitcom but had no lasting effect, and more passing references that weren't even a big deal within songs, and so forth.  There are enough TV-trivia-inclusionists in Wikipedia that we probably won't be able to get rid of completely as Otto4711 suggests.  But this doesn't rise to the level of significance to warrant a standalone article; it's barely notable enough to be worth a section in the game's article.  Barno 03:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep this article. It serves it's purpose keeping pointless trivia out of the main article. There is no way that the Risk article can achieve FA status if all this trivia is merged back into the main article. When I created this article it was following in the example of the Monopoly article. If you look at that article now you can see a bunch of listy trivia already spewing onto the main page. I'm not the one including trivia it's simply random people. If you were to argue that I simply delete it, it would be no good as it would just be included by the same person or another one. Just check out the history on the Liopleurodon article--there was a long argument over whether or not one should include a reference to the internet short 'Charlie the Unicorn'. Doubtless, countless hours have been wasted on such a pointless argument. Please do not turn the Risk article into a headache for the people trying to make it FA status. This article follows a precedent set down by other wikipedians writing/editing FA's and should not be deleted. b_cubed 04:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keeping the article because it keeps the garbage out of the main article is not a reasonable argument. If the information is garbage in the main article then it's garbage in a standalone article. All forking off garbage does is make the garbage someone else's problem. Otto4711 12:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Ok, as long as the trivia is deleted and not merged or forked back into the article I'm happy. b_cubed 05:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete. A section of the main article that should never have existed has somehow snowballed into this grotesque cruft fork. If a board game has had a lasting, significant cultural impact -- like chess or go -- then an encyclopedic discussion of that impact is warranted. Under no circumstances should an encyclopedia contain a bulleted list of instances in which its topic was briefly referenced in popular media. This is trivia and is not appropriate here. &mdash;ptk✰fgs 04:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge in to Risk article, but rewrite a bit so it's not a "trivia" section per se. ~ G1ggy!  Reply 09:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Ptkfgs and strongly don't merge per WP:TRIVIA. Percy Snoodle 10:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; this is a detached trivia section and is unencyclopedic because it is an indiscriminate list with no context. *** Crotalus ***  22:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This is simply a section which grew too big for inclusion in the main article. --h2g2bob (talk) 13:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete It shouldn't be in either the fork or the main article IMHO; it doesn't improve Risk (game) (on the contrary, as b_cubed pointed out), and it shouldn't be in it's own article. Even if it should have an article all to itself, it's unsourced (fails WP:V). · AndonicO Talk 21:44, 10 May 2007 (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.