Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Museum in popular culture
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- 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. Peter 12:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] British Museum in popular culture
Not every known institution can have a list of references made to it in film or book. That would be infinite and completely unmaintainable Bulldog123 15:37, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Delete as a directory of loosely-associated topics. The items on the list have nothing in common beyond a reference to the museum and the fact that they mention the museum tells us nothing about the museum, the items from which the reference is drawn, or the real world. Otto4711 17:23, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Comment/Keep/Upmerge to British Museum "Not every institution..." - nor should it, but the BM is significant enough - and nor will it, as this one is hardly going to cause a spate of them. "tells us nothing" - tells us how the Museum is seen in the outside world, ie its public image, as a 'great museum', surely?Neddyseagoon - talk 21:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
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- Not sure that a one-line refernce from a song about foggy London saying the place has lost its charm tells us that this is seen as a "great museum," and the same can be said for any of the other fairly trivial references on the list, most of which don't even bother to explain the museum's presence in the source material. The BM does not gain in notability by having been mentioned or seen in a collection of random pieces of fiction and the individual items on the list do not gain in notability for mentioning the BM. Otto4711 19:09, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and ample precedent. It also misses my favorite cross reference: the "date" scene from Maurice (film). Carlossuarez46 23:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
- Keep it to add that date scene... no, only kidding, delete. Bearian 21:09, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 04:33, 5 July 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.
