Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major gods

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The result was delete. If anyone wants to merge any of this I would be happy to userfy it to them. J04n(talk page) 11:08, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Major gods[edit]

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"Major" is not a valid categorization of "gods". Every single god listed on this page is covered by their location in list of gods by function. Furthermore, "major" isn't a function that can be performed, so this page does not belong in the category list and should not have its own category, which consists only of this one article. The article's list is choppy and incomplete, and the see also: list of deities at the top of the page better covers its contents. Penitence (talk) 22:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While I disagree that "major" is not a valid categorization of "gods", at least within the scope of any one family of religions, this list is rather indiscriminate, subjective, and covered by "List of deities" much better. Even if this list were to be kept, it needs to be renamed to "List of major deities". The category is a different issue that should be brought up at WP:CFD. -- ShinmaWa^(talk) 23:50, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

delete as indiscriminate list. Mangoe (talk) 01:24, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as superfluous. Twelve Olympians has information on the Greek pantheon. I don't know much about Aztec mythology, but Aztec creator gods covers the same subject. So this could be reduced to 2 links. But List of deities and Pantheon (gods) already offer links. I don't think the topic of "major gods" has a sufficiently consistent meaning between mythologies to merit even an improved version of this article, but if necessary lists of major gods could be added to List of deities. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:43, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete We have List of deities and the Pantheon article, and I agree that "major gods" as an overall list can't be defined. Lots of problems with this editor, see User talk:Giggette. Dougweller (talk) 10:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete as being unable to satisfy notability criteria. Praemonitus (talk) 20:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unsourced, no clear method of defining. I could see how this might be useful if Hinduism was brought up, but it is not, so no reason to go there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:05, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I cant imagine any major argument for keep, as the inclusion criteria will always be too imprecise. An article on the head god (or gods if a pantheon has equally shared rulership) for each religion might fly though.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:59, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with List of Deities. Currently it just has Greek and Aztec deities, but it could be expanded far beyond this. I've been looking for a source that compares the various mythologies of Indo-European cultures, this idea could be carried much farther. The List of Deities page only has categories, Sky Deities or Baltic deities. To list all the deities on one page--or even in a table--would be an excellent and interesting article indeed.Listmeister (talk) 20:36, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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