Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rubik's Cube in popular culture (2nd nomination)


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The result was merge‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Rubik's Cube. Liz Read! Talk! 01:57, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Rubik's Cube in popular culture
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This appears better than average at first glance but I fear this is still just a random list of media featuring Rubik's Cube and other trivia, failing WP:GNG as an article and WP:NLIST as a list. This is half a list of said random media featuring this toy (ex. "In the South Park episode "The Coon" a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube is seen."; in fact the entire article as often happens started as " a list of cultural references involving the Rubik's Cub" - something that WP:TVTROPES handles better anyway) and trivia about its popularity such as " almost 40,000 entries on YouTube featuring tutorials and video clips of quick solutions" or "there was a Google Doodle about it". Given that the main article on Rubik's Cube has no reception, I think we may entertain merging some stuff there (said trivia about its popularity), to such a section (as it can arguably constitute a section of the article, but not an article itself), but there is no need to keep this as a stand-alone article/list (due to failing aforementioned GNG/NLIST policies for stand-alone stuff). Final damning evidence: not a single source seems to discuss the broad concept of "Rubik's Cube in popular culture", nor is the term "popular culture" mentioned in the article outside the title and categories, which also suggests this article as framed is a big piece of WP:OR. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:48, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Games, Popular culture,  and Lists. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  01:48, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge. This is way better than most pop culture lists. Good chunks of of it is actually about Rubik's Cube rather incidental pop culture references. The Liberty Science Center exhibit should be merged, as well as some of the lead. Much of could be merged too. Perhaps more. &mdash;siro&chi;o 19:45, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Rubik's Cube, though only the 'Art' section has encyclopedic value. The rest are pretty unremarkable WP:IPC. SWinxy (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge To the main article. REDISCOVERBHARAT (talk) 12:44, 20 August 2023 (UTC)


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