Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dodos 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. - Mailer Diablo 11:35, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dodos in popular culture

Dodos in popular culture (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Laundry-list of trivial references. The only significant ones (Carroll) are already covered in the main article. --Eyrian 19:44, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

• Make extinct. I'd not mind these "pop culture" articles if they actually attempted to explain the significance of whatever in pop culture rather than simply try to document instances thereof. Arkyan • ^(talk) 20:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. "In Soul Calibur IV there's a dodo in one stage". That, from the article, is a perfect example of the kind of detritus these "... in popular culture" articles accrue. Charlie-talk to me-what I've done 22:11, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Gotta agree with the posters above that this article could use a lot of cleanup-- Arkyan and Echuck are right about what needs to be edited. However, dinosaurs are a part of popular culture and there's room for the dodo as well... apparently, the second most popular extinct animal, because kids can't spell "passenger pigeon". Hunt the detritus to extinction, put some signs next to the exhibit, make it work. Mandsford 23:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Charlie. Punkmorten 23:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete with some merge to Dodos.--JForget 00:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete because this is a completely unreferenced article that fails to assert the notability of this topic apart from any other animal that has appeared repeatedly in popular culture. Wikipedia is not a directory of loosely-associated topics. This is a synthesized list of firsthand observations, with no significant coverage from independent, secondary sources about the bird in popular culture. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:34, 2 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.