Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basilisks in fantasy fiction and games

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 no consensus to delete, merge possible. W.marsh 14:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Basilisks in fantasy fiction and games

Unencyclopedic laundry list of appearances, better summarised in main Basilisk article. Percy Snoodle 16:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete, I have no idea what the editor who deprodded this was thinking. --ForbiddenWord 15:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, and cleanup. A full list like this doesn't really belong Basilisk. Get rid of "it should be noted" and combine some paragraphs, and you have a perfectly decent article. Stilgar135 07:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment by "better summarised in main article" I didn't mean that it would be better to merge it there; rather that the summary there is sufficient. There's no need for this list in any article. Percy Snoodle 08:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

• Petition rejected Copious material should be segregated from the main article, lest it become swamped. - FrancisTyers · 09:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment Reading again, are we saying that the article should be deleted without being merged? If so, Accepted. - FrancisTyers · 09:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 23:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge into Basilisk. --Gray Porpoise 02:04, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Basilisk per Gray Porpoise. However, the amount of merged material should be severely limited. --Nlu (talk) 06:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

• Basilisk says merge. This stuff wouldn't seem too crufty there since it's a fictional concept anyway, and can illustrate how it the creature is of continued notability. In addition, the main article can establish context for this material. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 08:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - I don't see that there's anything to merge into the main article as there is already an adequate section there covering this. -- Whpq 20:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Gray Porpoise. This is much more detailed than the existing section, and contains verifiable information that should not be discarded. Basilisks are fantasy critters that have been used for a long time in many notable works. Neither article as it stands now is excessively long. Smerdis of Tlön 04:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - The Woman Who Sold The World 17:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep This kind of thing almost makes me wish we still had subpages. On the one hand it's a bit on the crufty side to stand on it's own, then again the alternative is to have the main article on a mythological creature overrun with game or movie references (see for examle Chakram two paragraphs of the history of the real weaon, then a 30+ point "movie and game apperance" list (everyting from Xena to Warcraft 3 heroes though Wonder Woman's tiara and Oddjob's hat...)). Merging with the main Basilisk article would be doing it a disservice IMHO, as this kind of things have a way of growing our of controll and take over the article. Better overall to keep in in a seperate list-ish article where people can put all theyr helpfull references to various versions of the Basilisk from various games, books and movies without "diluting" the main article and getting into revert wars and whatever over there, simmilar to the Dragon/List of dragons or Zombie/Zombies in computer and video games solutions. --Sherool (talk) 00:45, 20 August 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.