Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dark Lords in fiction

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 of the debate was delete. The only keep argument is somewhat negated by the fact that the Dark Lord article itself does not limit itself to people who are actually called "Dark Lord". This is a rather new article (which further justifies a deletion), and is entirely too broad, unverfiable, and full of original research to be kept. Turnstep 14:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Lords in fiction

The article is a (sort of) list of 'Dark Lords' in fiction. It consists of a great deal of (unreferenced and unverifiable) original research, where pretty much any evil character in literature, video games, or movies is dumped into a big crufty list. I'd prod this, but prod is currently misbehaving. Strong delete. Proto||type 09:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Mr. Burns? Delete until someone explains what Dark Lords don't exist in fiction. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 09:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete arbitrary list of arbitrary (and exceedingly common) fictional stereotype, brim-full of original research. The concept is probably encyclopaedic, but this list is not. Just zis Guy you know? 09:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per User:CanadianCaesar and User:JzG. JIP | Talk 17:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but cut out all individuals that are not specifically called "Dark Lord". Arctic Gnome 21:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as ill-defined, overly-broad, and unmaintainable. Think about it: an alternate title for this list could be "List of antagonists in stories from the fantasy genre". There are simply too many for such a list to be reasonable. That would be like, I don't know, a list of the "bad boy" or "conniving bitch trying to steal the hero away from the heroine" characters from romance stories. The Dark Lord article is encyclopedic, and this article may seem like a cool list and a logical extention of the Dark Lord article, but in practice it just doesn't work. --Icarus 03:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as prime random listcruft -- Hirudo 04:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Regretful delete - cool list, but see nom. Metamagician3000 11:44, 28 April 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.