Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Media portrayal of homosexuality

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. Sr13 03:06, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Media portrayal of homosexuality

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While this could be a great article, it's currently nothing more than a list of lists, with a smattering of information that's duplicated in the lists and articles referred to. Should be deleted until someone writes an actual article about the subject. SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, but do not salt, per SatyrTN's excellent nom. This is a situation where the information would clearly be better handled by a category. Heather 14:13, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, numerous books have been written about this very subject and WP is better served by improving the article than deleting it and all the work that has gone into it so far. Was article tagged for sources, expanding? I'm disappointed that we are so ready to throw out good work because it's not in a preferred mode and suggest that numerous methods to improve the article should be addressed before deleting it. Benjiboi 14:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: I'd be disappointed to throw out good work too, but this isn't it. A number of these citations aren't even about general homosexual themes as opposed to (as in the case, for instance, with most of those comics citations) being fictional works that just happen to include homosexual characters. Beyond that, "media portrayal" implies the mainstream news media, and any such article along these lines should more properly be named "Fictional portrayal of homosexuality." Why, look, there are already two: Lesbian literature and LGBT literature.  RGTraynor  16:12, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. There may be an encyclopedic article to be had under this title, but this article is not it. It's not even a start. Arkyan • ^(talk) 15:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless someone wants to go through that list and expand on how gays are portrayed. As it stands now, it is a "List of movies with homosexual elements", which is is a violation of WP:NOT being a list of loosely associated themes. Corpx 16:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and write a real article instead of this list which contains no text. Corvus cornix 16:44, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete encyclopedic topic, terrible article (rather a shame). This is one of the worst list articles I have seen. Usually they are strongly biased to the present day; this one seems to exclude everything but the present day and very recent past. Bigdaddy1981 17:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - this info already exists in a more complete format in the many sub-lists linked here. Plus, the name of the article is misleading; I would assume it was actually discussing trends of positive/negative portrayal per a GLAAD perspective, rather than just a redundant list. TAnthony 16:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Carlossuarez46 00:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
• Soft Delete Great topic, would be an awesome article.. But needs alot of work and unless someone is up to the task should be removed as it presently is. Callelinea 22:21, 5 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.