Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Movies that feature head explosions

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 and merge to List of films by gory death scene. Merge has already been performed and the other article is an entirely appropriate place for the material. If that article is not appropriate then a second AfD nomination is required. —Doug Bell ^talk 01:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• I've undeleted the article and redirected to the page where material was merged, so the contributors are attributed as the GFDL requires. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Movies that feature head explosions

Movies that feature head explosions (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Non-encyclopedic list. Not only is this a list of dubious value and unlikely to ever be comprehensive, it also suggests having similar lists for every other type of death or similar event depicted in a movie. Next we'll have List of movies that feature talking babies, List of movies that feature bears, etc. Per Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)#Appropriate topics for lists: To keep the system of lists useful, we must limit the number of lists. —Doug Bell ^talk 04:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

List of movies that feature talking babies and List of movies that feature bears would be far too large to be useful compared to this one. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Really...hmmm. There are 10 movies listed for exploding heads, how many times more can you come up with that have talking babies? :-P —Doug Bell ^talk 23:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. My head explodes at the cruftiness of this list. MER-C 05:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and User:MER-C. Additionally list does not conform to the Manual of Style -- wtfunkymonkey 05:25, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Amusing, but a new low for listcruft. Slightly leaning towards BJAODN. —Cuiviénen 06:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge. I feel it should be added as a section to List of films by gory death scene, which technically already covers a few of these.--Tenka Muteki 06:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  Kinda makes me think that's another list that ought to be deleted, but if it is to stay, then the merge would make sense. —Doug Bell ^talk 06:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nominator. JIP | Talk 08:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Your head a splode. Danny Lilithborne 08:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as comprising an indiscriminate collection of pointless information. Vizjim 09:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not required. --PremKudva^Talk 10:17, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Fred McGarry 10:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep exploding heads are uncommon enough to have a short to the point list about the topic. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree with the nom that this would set a precedent. Also, looking at the list the criteria is shaky -- it includes a head being blown off by a shotgun and that happens in a lot of films and that's not a head "Explosion". Plus there are a couple of examples that appear to be speculative or at least uncited. 23skidoo 14:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Yay for WP:OR. --Elaragirl^Talk|Count 14:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:OR, listcruft, nonsense. Terence Ong 14:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge. I am the creator of the article and I think if anything, it should be merged either to List of films by gory death scene or exploding head. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, so that was actually my first article. I was unaware of any list rules, but now I know. Lemmy12 20:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I would like to add that List of films by gory death scene had already been up for deletion, but survived. Lemmy12 21:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Already done, in fact.--Tenka Muteki 22:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Explode the head (delete). Seems a bit obvious, actually. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 22:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Unmaintainable crufty OR list. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -- IslaySolomon | talk 23:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Since it has been merged, I don't see how this debate should be continued further. I'll edit the newly-added section in List of films by gory death scene to be in alphabetical order. Lemmy12 00:54, 30 November 2006 (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.