Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of fictional bears

List of fictional bears
A classic thorough list.--The_stuart 15:41, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Object - sorry, just don't think this is the sort of list we can feature: there is no way it is (or indeed can be) comprehensive. For example, there are unmentioned bears in the Pullman His Dark Materials books for a start; are you sure there is only one play and three' films with bear in them? It could also do with a short lead section to explain the list, and there are no references. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:52, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Just out of curiosity how could we refrence this kind of list other than saying where each bear came from? --The_stuart 01:31, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * There is more to it than just listing a bunch or works. If it had a good lead section discussing the purpose, occurence, trends, history, etc. of fictional bears, that, at least, would need references. --Dmcdevit 05:50, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Object- no references or lead, and like ALoan, I question its comprehensiveness. --Dmcdevit 17:38, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Object not comprehensive. Off the top of my head I can think of several bears not mentioned...Since we are listing Teddy Bears, where is Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear? I seem to remember a movie about called The Bear several years ago that was somewhere on the line between a nature docementary and narrative story about a young bear being pursued by hunters.  I also remember a movie called The Bears and I.  From my childhood, I remember a book called, I think, The Bears of Big Stream Valley.  Please note that looking up these references and putting them into the list will not fix my objection. You will get over 600 returns on the IMDB if you search for the word "Bear" by character. Granted many of these are human characters with the word Bear in their character names, but not all.  I also don't think that non-humans actors get pages on the IMDB, so bears playing bears woldn't show n this list. Also the vast majority of this list are fictional Bears from English language sources, are there no French Bears, no Native American Bears, no Russian Bears? What about bears in folklore and mythology? In short I believe that is the type of list that can never be featured because of the open ended nature of its subject Dsmdgold 03:29, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Object due to the comprehensivity concerns raised above. It needs references, and some content explaining how and why bears occur in fiction. Tuf-Kat 01:21, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment it's a dynamic list and I'm currently suggesting to amend the criteria to not require those to be exhaustive. -- User:Docu
 * This list, though, fails on other counts besides comprehensiveness. It doesn't even have a lead. --Dmcdevit 04:51, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd need to spend some time comparing it to similar lists to support it. In general, I don't think it needs to provide as references as detailed as List of ministers of the environment/Sources. -- User:Docu