Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cerberus in popular culture

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. --Coredesat 06:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cerberus in popular culture

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Trivia, trivia, trivia. Straightforward, minor references to the mythological beast. Unacceptable per WP:FIVE and WP:NOT#IINFO. Eyrian 16:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

The only reason for the creation of the article was to remove all the pop-culture cruft that was swamping the main Cerberus page. Unfortunately if this is deleted the same thing will just happen again. Not that I care if the article is deleted, its all alot of rubish anyway. --Theranos 18:32, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I now watch Cerberus, and pledge to keep it clean. --Eyrian 18:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

• If you want Wikipedia to have any sort of respect from the scholarly community, or within education in general, do not argue for keeping articles on a 'better here than there' basis. Perhaps a somewhat stretched analogy? If a government decided to dump toxic, radioactive, cancer-inducing materials into the ocean rather than burying them in a public street, the logical person would not say 'better there than here'. They would say, 'Stop bloody well producing toxic waste!' So, stop bloody well producing fanservicey fluff. There are ways to make serious articles containing the about the influence certain things have had on popular culture. A list in which every fanboy and fangirl out there can throw in a sentence mentioning a reference inside whatever popular culture element strikes their fancy. If you care about the articles in question, police them! CaveatLector^Talk 03:19, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, again a non-notable alleged pop culture phenomenon. Carlossuarez46 21:04, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Eyrian the Barbarian is right about this one; it's mostly a list of things named Cerberus (and what a cool name that is, unless you misread it and thought it was pronounced "Ce-REE-brus"). Indeed, one of the few mentions of the three-headed puppy is that Kevin Sorbo "once fought Cerberus" on the Hercules TV show. Mandsford 00:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
• Yes, delete this trivia. --Tony Sidaway 00:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep (without prejudice to later renomination) per the comments of User:Melsaran and myself at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Eyrian. The nominator is, broadly speaking, right that wikipedia should be purged of inappropriate trivia: however he and the other delete voters in this and a string of related AfDs are immediatists. The right approach is to give the matter considered thought, to review these types of articles with TLC and to extract from them the items that do have merit, and with what's left to consider whether a transwiki is a better option than outright deletion from the world wide web. The greatest weakness of wikipedia is the lack of respect that some members of the community have for the hard work of others, and an inability to see - or even to seek - the diamonds in the rough. AndyJones 07:50, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Request to closing admin if this closes as a delete would you, instead, move it (protected if you feel it necessary) to a sub-page of User:AndyJones? AndyJones 07:50, 6 August 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.