Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYU 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 delete—fails to establish true notability outside of a loose list of appearances. — Deckiller 14:19, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NYU in popular culture

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Delete - random collection of unassociated items which share nothing in common past a mention of greater or lesser triviality to NYU. A list of fictional characters who attemded NYU and a list of TV episodes that mention it or was partially shot there does not constitute an encyclopedia article. Otto4711 14:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• delete - trivial mentions that serve to do nothing except promote American TV shows and movies. This isn't "NYU in popular culture", it's "TV shows and movies that mention NYU" - and that makes it an indiscriminate list. "X in popular culture" articles may be very useful when written properly - but around here they always seem to get bloated out into lists of TV shows, without any non-trivial mentions from third-party reliable sources to prove that the mention is somehow notable for something. That gets as bad as having a List of TV characters with toothbrush moustaches. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 14:57, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete but Print it in the alumni magazine Many of us enjoy hearing our own hometown, college, etc. mentioned on a TV show, but that doesn't mean that we want to know every time it happened. Not picking on NYU or on you. There's a reason why this isn't kept in the main article about the school, although some of the more significant (?) stuff might be put in a section of that article. Mandsford 15:14, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad is right this not NYU in popular culture its books, movies and TV shows that mention NYU in passing. While this is interesting it's not encyclopedic. The scope and depth of these sources does not satisfy WP:N--Cailil ^talk 16:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete All items are uncited article does nothing to say why any of the so called occurances are at all notable. There may be some cases where an involvement with NYU might be significant - but this does nothing to argue this.Nigel Ish 20:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. This is nothing more than a trivia section presented as a stand alone article. Delete all trivia. What is the point? SilkTork 20:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per triviacruft.--JForget 01:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete list of extremely loosely associated items Corpx 04:36, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Not nominated for any reason other than the words "popular culture" in the title. RandomCritic 15:41, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep for essentially the same reasons we should keep Yale in popular culture. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yale in popular culture) --orlady 16:46, 6 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.