Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The monster book of monsters


 * 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. A merger remains possible, depending on consensus and with attribution, from the original third-party wiki source  Sandstein   07:17, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

The monster book of monsters

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It's about a work of fiction within a work of fiction. Most of it is just direct quotes, and the parts that aren't are copy and pasted from *somewhere* (here is one example of where it could be from) Brightgalrs ( /braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/ )[1] 08:01, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 14.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  08:15, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment:I do know that it's been released as a toy of sorts, but being as toys rarely get notability, I'm going to say that I predict that I won't find anything to show notability.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 11:15, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The text referred to seems to originate at http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/The_Monster_Book_of_Monsters and is Creative Commons licensed. It should be acknowledged, but isn't. Having said that, there is possibly a slight case for this book as being a more active participant than the other fictional books of the Harry Potter series are - but none of them have articles unless actually published in the Muggle world (with suspicion of the involvement of a certain J.K.Rowling...). Peridon (talk) 12:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: Non-notable fictional element. SL93 (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge (with proper attribution, of course) to either Harry Potter universe or Magical objects in Harry Potter per WP:ATD. It's a plausible redirect term, and I don't readily see it covered in either of those seemingly logical places, so a merge to list of fictional elements within the notable fictional franchise seems appropriate. Jclemens (talk) 00:59, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Really non-notable fictional item with no importance both in the fictional universe and in the real-world. – sgeureka t•c 07:13, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I'd be happy with a merge to Magical objects in Harry Potter - there doesn't seem to be a books section there, but most of the books are about magic rather than actually being magic. This book did have a certain importance in that it was one of the things used to discredit Hagrid during his spell (sorry) as a teacher. Peridon (talk) 18:43, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per Peridon. The earliest edit at Wikia is 2007, compared with 2012 here, and most of the WP text is identical to text in the History section of the Wikia article. Anarchangel (talk) 01:42, 18 April 2012 (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.