Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Modern arcana

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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. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 16:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Modern arcana

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1. There are no references: the existence of the term is unsourced and unverifiable. This is possibly because no one but the author and a few pals use it. As a matter of notability, we can't have an entry for every local slang term or a subgenre for every game, movie and book title that someone might use as a type of a genre. LotR is not a fantasy subgenre: heroic fantasy is, even though people on the street use LotR that way. 2. It is an orphan article, very likely because no one else uses the term. Nothing in it is any different than the usual writer/editor/reader terms urban fantasy or contemporary fantasy, or even elfpunk. 3. It does, however, permit the mention of a few RPG directly from the Fantasy Genres page. Less-than-blatant advertising? The complete lack of reference to the multitude of novels and movies possible to list under this description makes me think so. I see no reason to add them to this when they are already covered under terms actually used in the F&SF community. HollyI (talk) 20:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete: The creation of an all-but-SPA who hasn't much been heard in a long while, this goes beyond WP:OR and almost into WP:NFT country. It's sad that it's taken two years to AfD this.  RGTraynor  17:12, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - Non-notable term. - JasonAQuest (talk) 17:56, 27 January 2008 (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.