Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semiotics of wrestling characters


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The result was   delete. SarahStierch (talk) 01:53, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Semiotics of wrestling characters

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This article is... how do I put this. Semiotics is a thing. Wrestling characters are a thing. And it's certainly possible to apply semiotic analysis to wrestling characters. But the "semiotics of wrestling characters" as a thing is not shown by this article to be a topic that requires an article. The article attempts to present some semiotic analysis of wrestling characters, based on a couple of sources, but that should be included somewhere else, probably Kayfabe. As this article stands, it's teetering on the verge of only existing as a synthetic construction. It was created by a single user in 2011 who then never came back, and has remained since then. That user clearly had no idea what they were talking about, either, because the sentence "Wrestling characters use semiotics to portray their character in explicit fashion." is gibberish.—  Scott  •  talk  13:41, 15 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete Article is poorly conceived. It should be about "Wrestling character" not "Semiontics of wrestling characters." We have an article on Reptile, not Biology of reptiles. Kitfoxxe (talk) 14:02, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the above comment. Most of this is simply an analysis of face and heel. It may or may not be possible to write an article about attempts to apply the academic discipline of semiotics to wrestling, akin to the article sociology of religion, which discusses the various ways that the academic discipline of sociology has been applied to religion (there's also the rather stubby semiotics of culture as another comparison). But this is not that kind of article. And it's not a notable topic in the way sociology of religion or semiotics of culture are. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Barthes' essay on semiotics within wrestling is an interesting one - but it is interesting as an essay on the application of semiotics. It doesn't make the subject itself notable. The article strikes me as resembling a student essay by someone who read Barthes, and missed the point entirely... AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:51, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wrestling-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:54, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
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