Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferris Bueller in popular culture

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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 06:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ferris Bueller in popular culture

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giant trivia fork for times that Ferris Bueller was mentioned or referenced. Various other movies with "in popular culture" articles have been deleted, including The Shining and Star Wars, among others. Biggspowd 14:05, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. JJL 14:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - indiscriminate collection of information, directory of unassocaited topics, triva. Strongly oppose the inevitable suggestion to merge any of it to an article on the film or the character. Otto4711 16:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I would translate "in popular culture" as "all the stuff that didn't make the cut for the main article". Out! Brianyoumans 19:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom as well Xtreme racer 19:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Speedy merge, as a fair compromise to keep all the hard work that went into the article. --172.133.145.96 20:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

  • WP:EFFORT is not a strong argument for keeping an article. Otto4711 21:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unlike similar lists for Day the Earth Stood Still and Dr. Strangelove, which I am in favor of keeping, this list appears to be at least 90% useless. This list does not help you understand how the film affected popular culture; the other lists at least mostly do. Capmango 22:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge to the parent article, the most pertinent, important info.--JForget 23:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete You worked hard on the list, but information like this actually detracts from a film that's clearly one of your favorites, and one of my favorites too. I think that's why this was not made part of the article on Ferris Bueller. Who wants to read a list of parodies and jokes about a classic film? You have the DVD, I'm sure... listen to the commentary, and count how many times John Hughes says that this was mentioned in other media... zero. Mandsford 23:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC) Addendum To your credit, you didn't take away from the main article by piling in a list of references like this. Having written another type of references-in-popular-culture list (and getting an unmerciful hectoring for it), I can see both sides of the matter. True, nobody is forced to read your list. On the other hand, does it pass the (non-Wiki) test of "was this more fun to write than it is to read"? Maybe a few (emphasis on few) of the best examples would be OK in the main article. (Note to administrators-- I hope that the policy of notifying the author of a proposed deletion has been followed. Not fair to author if it hasn't, and we debaters are should be addressing the author, not just trying to impress each other with our supposed intellectual prowess) Mandsford 12:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 11:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 11:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete because this article is largely a list of indiscriminate trivia in disguise. Per directory standards, most of the entries are not famous because they have a mention of Ferris Bueller (like Family Guy, which spoofs a range of entities too indiscriminate to record). Per notability standards, the topic is supposed to be explored through "significant coverage" that address the subject of Ferris Bueller in popular culture directly, instead of extracting it from the firsthand observations of the editors themselves. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:50, 22 June 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.