Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghostbusters Trivia

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The result was redirect to Ghostbusters. For the purpose of merging, the text of this article before redirection may be accessed here. John254 00:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ghostbusters Trivia

Ghostbusters Trivia (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This is a trivia article, without references, for a movie. Wikipedia is not the IMDb. delete Cornell Rockey 04:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• delete and perhaps merge into the main article? This is an awful lot of random trivia, though, so maybe not.--Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 05:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into the main Ghostbusters article. The main article doesn't actually have a trivia section, it just links out to this page. It's also acceptable for a movie article to include some real world trivia. However, even if it's merged, there needs to be an effort to find sources for individual claims. If you can source some claims and not others, then delete the unsourced ones and keep the sourced ones. Quack 688 05:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Quack 688. bibliomaniac15 05:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Quack 688. JuJube 06:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment It appears that this article Ghostbusters did have a huge trivia section at one point for example and this was culled from it. User:Kingpin1055 appears to have created this from the Ghostbusters article. SkierRMH,08:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete or merge to Ghostbusters. Wikipedia is not a collection of trivia. JIP | Talk 09:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment As SkierRMH mentioned, I created the article because there'd been complaints with the trivia section being a part of the main Ghostbusters article. I figured that this would be a 'positive' resolution as I have felt most of the trivia, pending accurate descriptions and sourcing was valid for inclusion'. Trivia isn't included in real encycleopedia because they don't have the luxury of near infinite space or the resources of people who'd be willing to try look it out such as us, I say that isn't a problem with Wikipedia and that trivia isn't as 'evil' as some seem to regard it as. Kingpin1055 09:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete since it's - well, trivial. Guy (Help!) 11:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge - clearly it doesn't need an article by itself. Insanephantom (please comment on my Editor Review!) 11:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge anythign that actually has a source into the appropriate sections of the rest of the Ghostbusters article and do not have a separate trivia section within the article. Most of the "trivia" is unsourced anyway. Otto4711 15:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge back into Ghostbusters. As per Otto, merge sourced trivia only. That should trim it down a bit. Proto::► 15:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge Can't see any good reason to have a separate article for this. --Lee Vonce 17:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge anything that can be sourced back to the main article. Very shoddy cut-and-paste job. The first sentence reads "Lindsay Buckingham was also approached..." implying something else is supposed to be before it. A lot of it can be sourced, but isn't, for example: the Slimer character was not just rumored to be based on John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd has stated many times that it is based on him. This trivia section isn't really that large compared to some I've seen, so it doesn't need its own article (if you can call this an "article"). Wavy G 23:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge Ghostbuster's trivia is popular MiracleMat 07:56, 9 January 2007 (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.