Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garuda 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. Cbrown1023 talk 00:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Garuda in popular culture

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Thoroughly unsourced trivia article, with no pretentions of being an article. We already have Garuda (disambiguation). This is a list of very minor trivia, mostly from video games, manga and the like, and most entries having little or nothing to do with Garuda apart from the name... a questionable connection seeing as Garuda is from Indian mythology, being presented in Japanese forms translated into English. No need to merge this back to Garuda, it was forked off from there in the first place, so the items still exist in the history. This article is effectively abandoned, and is a cruft-magnet, and needs to go. Beyond that, I honestly don't think that Garuda is sufficiently important to popular culture that we should have this article: any good version of this article would probably be original research. Mangojuicetalk 13:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete in popular culture The solution to oversized "in popular culture" sections is to prune them, not to fork them into "articles" which are entirely made up of vaguely associated trivia. Guy (Help!) 13:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • This kind of articles gets created because no one is willing to take up maintenance of pop-culture references in the main articles (it is very time consuming and hopeless struggle). If you have better solution working under current limitations of Wikipedia many, including me, would be very glad to know. (Just deleting the "... in popular culture" leaf page results in people inserting the references to the main article, starting the cycle again). Pavel Vozenilek 17:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as unreferenced WP:OR. I have no problem with the fork. It is just unreferenced. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - unreferenced, unattributable. There really, really needs to be some uniform, and enforced, standards for what constitutes a "Popular Culture Reference". Something sharing the same name, or similar features, or even a physical resemblance and a name should not count. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Haemo (talk • contribs) 06:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
  • Delete with no merge - per nom. Otto4711 17:52, 18 March 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.