Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Something wicked this way comes (phrase)


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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Something wicked this way comes (phrase)

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There's nothing to be said about this phrase except that it's a line from Macbeth; I can't find any kind of critical analysis of this phrase in isolation. And the "In popular culture" section just duplicates the existing dab page. DoctorKubla (talk) 07:47, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and/or redirect to Something Wicked This Way Comes. I think that all we really need is to merge the article's content to the top of the disambiguation page in a "The phrase _____ was spoken in Act IV scene 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The speaker is the second witch, whose full line is, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. The term might also refer to:" That's really all we need for the page in and of itself. The phrase is so commonly used that the list of when it's referred to could be so extensive that a popular culture section would be forever incomplete and take up the majority of the text. It's clearly a notable phrase, but I agree that there isn't any coverage of this specific phrase that really analyzes it outside of the play as a whole. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   08:24, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and/or redirect to Something Wicked This Way Comes- agree Deathlibrarian (talk) 11:19, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - This "article" is the poster child for WP:IPC. Yes, the phrase is used for the titles of various things. Yes, it's a Shakespeare quote. A disamb page with a one sentence lead-in covers all of that. This article has zero sources discussing the phrase because it is not a topic about which there is anything substantive to say (other than scholarly works which discuss every phrase, jot and tittle that may have come from Shakespeare). - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 13:44, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete This page is almost a duplication of Something Wicked This Way Comes, which is a proper disambiguation page. Certainly Shakespeare was the greatest phrase-maker of the English language, but unless a secondary source says something substantial about the expression itself the article is not to be.  -Borock (talk) 18:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge the lead (or at least its first sentence) to Something Wicked This Way Comes. The name can be redirected if it is necessary to keep the edit history, or else deleted, as the parenthetical (phrase) seems an unlikely search term. Cnilep (talk) 01:06, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I've just added a line to the DAB, not copied from the (phrase) page, so deletion is fine. Cnilep (talk) 01:36, 24 September 2013 (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.