Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen King in popular culture (2nd nomination)


 * 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. joe deckertalk to me 19:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Stephen King in popular culture
AfDs for this article: Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Stephen King
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Delete. WP:POPCULTURE: "Exhaustive, indiscriminate lists are discouraged, as are passing references to the article subject." "[P]assing mentions in books, television or film dialogue [...] should be included only when that mention's significance is itself demonstrated with secondary sources." "In determining whether a reference is notable enough for inclusion, one helpful test can be to look at whether a person who is familiar with the topic only through the reference in question has the potential to learn something meaningful about the topic from that work alone." Nominated for deletion in 2008, so it's had three years to have had a chance to be cleaned up, but looking at the original nominator's comment then, it looks like it's had virtually NO work done on it since then and exhibits the same problems as 2008, except with three years' additional data added. As the original nominator said, "A list of everytime he is mentioned isn't notable." As the closing admin noted, "I suggest that people arguing for retention work on fixing it up; articles can only persist under the 'keep and cleanup' argument once or twice." No one worked on fixing it up, and I don't think "keep and cleanup" can be a valid defense after the "keep" people had three-plus years to do exactly that ... and didn't. WCityMike 12:44, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Looks like miscellany and trivia and not much else. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 18:41, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Stephen King. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 05:26, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete- unsourced, excessive trivia of the "I saw it here!!!" variety. Reyk  YO!  06:26, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fancruft, unsourced trivia. --Reference Desker (talk) 11:53, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge Merge it with Stephen Kings page, it is important to have on his page, but not as a stand alone page. Who Am I Why Am I Here? (talk) 23:27, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - a list of every time someone says "Stephen King" is not an encyclopedia article. A list of every time a Stephen King work is mentioned or parodied in another work is not an encyclopedia article. A list of everything that looks like it might be a reference to something Stephen King wrote or said or did is not an encyclopedia article. Harley Hudson (talk) 03:59, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:12, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:12, 27 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete What we have here is a long unsourced list of trivia. None of it is actually all that notable, most are just passing mentions or original research without an RS to draw the connection for us. Merger into Stephen King would be highly UNDUE in that article. Prefer keep over merge due to that, but I don't think this article as a topic meets WP:GNG in independent sources. Courcelles 00:39, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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