Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump 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 merge/redirect to Donald Trump. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 06:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Donald Trump in popular culture

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not really a huge list of trivia like the other "IPC" articles, but basically an overblown hodgepodge of trivia and cruft about times he has appeared on TV shows, his WWE stint, etc. It is fairly redundant and most of it is sufficiently covered in the main article. Biggspowd 15:04, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• Merge with Donald Trump. His political views, parodies of him, and "other notable appearances" such as his Learning Annex seminars are not currently covered in his main article. Wl219 17:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• comment There is no intrinsic reason why the main article cannot be the place for this material. DGG (talk) 18:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge then delete per W1219. Carlossuarez46 21:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per above. One of the most overrated persons in history (even though he invented the phrase, "You're fired") does not merit a pop culture article. Hey, did you hear that Leona Helmsley passed away? I think her IPC article should be nominated for deletion, but one should wait 15 minutes out of respect. Mandsford 23:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to the Trump article per above.--JForget 00:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per above and redirect. Dbromage [Talk] 01:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Redundant and trivial. Otto4711 16:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete A lot of us editors at the Donald Trump article did a lot of hard work to get rid of this sort of non-notable WP:TRIVIA. The moment this is merged 50% of the article would be on this OR trivia which in turn breaks WP:UNDUE. We don't want this back either. Tendancer 16:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect without deleting per DGG and Mandsford. --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep These "popular culture" articles are generally poor in quality, but they serve a useful fucntion as a repository for trivia, which some editors delight in adding. This protects the main article from such additions. However this article is disproportionately long, and should certainly be trimmed. This article is of similar length to the principal article, so that merging would gravely unbalance it. NOTE for closing editor - I have added a link to this article in that on Donald Trump, which should be removed if the decision is to delete. Peterkingiron 22:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

• Serving as a repository for trivia is not a legitimate function for Wikipedia articles. Trivia sections are to be avoided but splitting off a trivia section into its own article is not the way to do it. Otto4711 12:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete all %SUBJECT% in popular culture lists, they are nothing but trivia and violate the five pillars of Wikipedia as well. Burntsauce 17:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Trump article no need for separate article.Harlowraman 19:28, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The present article is not one of our finer efforts in the IPC area. The complete saga of all of Trump's TV appearances doesn't need to be told in Wikipedia. It's hard to imagine that our Trump article would become better due to inclusion of any of this. EdJohnston 04:34, 28 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.