Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular cultural references for The Wizard of Oz

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. Sr 13 03:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Popular cultural references for The Wizard of Oz[edit]

Violates WP:NOT#IINFO and WP:NOT#DIR. Article lists any trivial mention of The Wizard of Oz in film, book or TV show, including "movies where the characters are seen watching The Wizard of Oz." Therefore, it runs the risk of becoming insanely bloated. ~~The main article has a "cultural impact" section as well as a list of notable adaptations.~~ My mistake; this list seems to be concerned with pop culture refs to the film, not the story itself. The entirety of the article up for AfD is duplicated at the film's article. Bzuh? María (críticame) 17:56, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Dalejenkins 18:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an unencyclopedic directory of indiscriminate trivia. Purely consists of original research; coverage of a medium's presence in popular culture should be reflected through uncovered commentary, not directly uncovered examples. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:28, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not only is it merely cruft, it's really most sincerely cruft. Otto4711 19:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Retain - This content is like a ball of mercury, if there isn't a separate article then it will clutter up the main article. The similar content in the original article should all be moved here and then removed from the main article. Butwhatdoiknow 22:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Better here than there is not a valid argument for keeping the article. If the information is unencyclopedic in the main article then it's unencyclopedic on its own. The proper course of action for dealing with unencyclopedic material is to delete it, not to foist it off into its own terrible article for someone else to deal with. Otto4711 03:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as unencyclopedic trivia. Wikipedia is not a trivia guide. --Charlene 22:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I know, it's hypocrital of us to all use Wizard of Oz references as we vote to delete this article, but it really does list even the most trivial references to Oz, and I liked all the Oz books. You forgot The Matrix, but "Kansas is going bye bye" would meet your criteria. Gotta drop the farmhouse on this one. Mandsford 02:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 09:08, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.