Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gold Key

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 of the debate was KEEP. Robert ^{T | @ | C} 00:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gold Key

This article is highly misleading. It purports to describe the use of gold bars and artifacts as "keys" to Swiss bank accounts. Nothing of the sort is true. The article also seems to deliberately confuse works of fiction (particularly The Da Vinci Code) with reality. One of the authors has also created a misleading image asserting that an ordinary serial-numbered gold bar is a "gold key", and also inserted similar misleading information in our article Swiss banking. --FOo 04:09, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and cleanup. If the concept is purely fictional, that's okay as long as the article makes that clear... example: President of Earth. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 04:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and remove the inaccurate material so people can learn that it's not real. Gazpacho 04:36, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Fictional items definitely belong in encyclopedias, e.g. Golden fleece, robin hood, alice in wonderland, mickey mouse etc. etc. I see the firstl line statrts off "In fiction, a gold key is...." Therefore, I am not sure what cleaning up would be required. It would be a shame to remove the nice photos, but reference could be made to the fact that they are representations of what a gold key may be. Watercolour 06:55, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup with more emphasis on the fictional nature. Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter series has a similar arrangement. Capitalistroadster 08:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The first line of the article makes it obvious that a gold key is only in fiction.
• Keep and Cleanup Sure, the first line makes it clear that it's fiction, but other parts of the article (particularly captions) seem to forget that fact. I agree with Lenahan: stress the fiction aspect a little more and this article's in business.Keep The cleanup part seems to have been done. Reads now like a legitimate encyclopeia article on a fictional object. Good work MCB.jfg284
• Redirect to Gold Key Comics. The current article is useless and describes something that does not, in fact, exist. flowersofnight 20:18, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up. This isn't just an object in Da Vinci Code; it's a somewhat common concept in conspiracy theories and conspiracy writing. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 22:08, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per above. 23skidoo 06:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Wikipedia also has entries for Wonka Bars (fictional chocolate bars), Misty Mountains and Krypton, (fictional places), Pussy Galore and The Mad Hatter (fictional people), R2-D2 and C-3PO (fictional robots), Gnommish (the "fairy language" used in the Artemis Fowl books), Bandersnatch (a fictional creature), and Batmobile (a fictional car). Revised Edition 18:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. This is almost so misleading and confusing that it might be better to delete it than try to fix it, but I'm going to go whack at it with an axe, and we'll see. I would not be terribly disappointed it it were deleted, though.</stgrike> MCB 23:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, I did some major surgery to address the fact/fiction issues, removed some excessive images and misleading captions, got rid of the excessive DaVincicruft & spoilage, added Harry Potter reference per Capitalistroadster, and other minor stuff. MCB 23:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, as we have other fictional entries. Carioca 21:45, 1 November 2005 (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.