Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional cities

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. - Mailer Diablo 11:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of fictional cities

List of fictional cities A-M (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

List of fictional cities N-Z (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

What reason is there to have these huge unwieldly lists of things that are entirely unrelated, other than being fictional cities? -Amarkov ^blah_edits 06:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete, potentially endless. The goal is more easily accomplished with categories and subcategories. Category:Fictional towns and cities already exists and can be further subclassified even by book or series or universe (e.g. Category:Fictional cities and towns in Middle-earth or Category:Fictional cities and towns in RuneScape). —Cuiviénen 06:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I think the benefits of the category outweighs the benefits of a long, messy list in this case. Cuivienen's suggestion is a nice one, too. riana_dzasta 06:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per those above. This is something which is much better served by one or more categories. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete but I'd rather not see it used to populate equally useless categories. —Doug Bell ^talk 07:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, but only because it is redundant with the category. Otherwise I see no problems. JIP | Talk 08:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. MER-C 08:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, this is unmaintainably long with little additional value over categories. In this case, I think categories are better. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, categories are better for such stuff, its going to go on and on. Sigh. Terence Ong 15:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this list appears to be too arbitrary and unmanageable.-- danntm ^T _C 19:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Smerge to Setting (fiction). It's the thought that counts with this page, but yes, it's getting to be too much. A mention on the setting (fiction) page (perhaps using one or more of the fictional cities as examples) would make more sense. --Dynamite Eleven 19:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - If there isn't already a place, I think there should be a list of fictional cities by the topic type, for example list of fictional cities in middle earth etc... At present it is too unwieldly & too impossible to maintain... Spawn Man 23:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

There is. You can check the category mentioned for subcats.- Mgm|^(talk) 11:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - a category would suffice. Axem Titanium 22:05, 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.