Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dark Lord

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The result was delete. This can be replaced with a disambiguation page if necessary. --Coredesat 03:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Lord

"a title used in fiction to talk about a powerful villain, especially when pronouncing the real name is thought to bring bad luck ... Many of the clichés of a dark lord were based on totalitarian states with a fascist ideology" Sorry, but this is original research. The article speculates a bit about the vague definition of "dark lord" and then lists a number of antagonists from fiction. I'm sure this could redirect somewhere sensible, but this article just isn't encyclopedic. (Radiant) 09:13, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. There's nothing really useful there anyway, and it was conflated with the "Evil Overlord" idea which isn't quite the same thing. It might be worth turning it into a disambiguation page pointing to various fictional characters that have been called "Dark Lord". All I can think of are Sauron and Lord Voldemort, but there may be others. TCC (talk) (contribs) 09:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Turn into disambiguation for fictional dark lords as suggested above. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as orginal research. -- Whpq 16:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment — I'm not sure if it should deleted or turned into a disambiguation page - ultimately, the list would become very, very long if every villain from books, movies, games, and novels were put into it, and the resulting article would be a bit hard to maintain. Further, would the page only put fictional characters who were actually called the Dark Lord (like Voldemort, for example), or just any villain? I suppose I'm leaning towards deleting it - but what should the guidelines be for the disambiguation page? –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 17:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

No, only the villains who have actually been called Dark Lord would be included. I think that would exclude any non-fictional villain. - Mgm|^(talk) 22:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Whoops. Yeah, I meant fictional villain, sorry. =P –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 22:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

The idea being to provide an index for someone who might be looking up a character under that name. There would be little point otherwise. TCC (talk) (contribs) 08:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Definitely redirect/disambig to any fictional being that has actually been called, in relevant fiction Dank Lord. --humblefool® 19:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete wow, this is a pointless article. ReverendG 23:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. - I just hadn't gotten around to it yet. This article turns my stomach with its uselessness. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 10:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Would make a great original article in some SFF magazine. Wouldn't mind if it got put in BJAODN, though maybe it's not that funny. WMMartin 17:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I can't see any way to verify any of this. Now I need to go back and add Evil laugh to the AfD page too.Slavlin 21:33, 28 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.