Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Sign


 * 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 redirect to The King in Yellow. Consensus is to not keep this as a separate article. Editors can decide separately if they want to convert the redirect to a dab page, if there is enough content to be dabbed, or whether they want to merge some content from the history.  Sandstein  17:40, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Yellow Sign

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While there are multiple works that have "Yellow Sign" in their titles, the original sign is not independently notable. Honestly, this sign is far less notable than Lovecraft's Elder Sign. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 17:35, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. &#8213; Susmuffin  Talk 17:35, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. &#8213; Susmuffin  Talk 17:35, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting for community feedback regarding deletion, keep/rename, etc. Thanks everyone for participating and assuming good faith!
 * I feel like there should be a disambiguation page at this title, given the prevalence of yellow as a color for street signs containing warnings, and the existence of other possibly confusing things like the Yellow card and Yellow light. BD2412  T 02:12, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be reasonable. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 04:42, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect. Much less famous than its elder counterpart and seems to fail GNG even more. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 15:11, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Notability is not established. TTN (talk) 11:52, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename Yellow Sign (fiction) per WP:NOTPAPER and change current title to dab page. Another item that might be listed on the disambiguation page is Traffic sign. StonyBrook (talk) 15:32, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 18:34, 27 January 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Rename & Redirect to The King in Yellow - While the coverage on this fictional symbol is not enough to pass the WP:GNG as an independent article, it can serve as a redirect to the book that it originated from, which already has ample coverage of its role in fiction. Doing so would probably necessitate renaming it, as suggested by StonyBrook, if a disambiguation page is created.  Rorshacma (talk) 18:43, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Dabify without page move. Just remove all the prose, and let each work of fiction explain this fictional element for itself. – sgeureka t•c 13:20, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   20:20, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Rename & Redirect R&R per Rorshacma. "Other media" subsection, esp. "Games", resembles an example farm. Of the entries under "Games", only Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game links back to The Yellow Sign, and it can be assumed that a work based on the Cthulhu Mythos is going to draw from minor elements of the Cthulhu Mythos. Not even True Detective links back, and none of the other non-literature examples have their own articles. Shmuser (talk) 01:20, 4 February 2020 (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.