Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Organized crime in popular culture

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The result was delete. Sr13 09:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Organized crime in popular culture

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This article is a directory of entries only loosely associated by the mention of organized crime. It is essentially trivia, which should be avoided. The content in the article is based on original research. Whispering 15:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I'm going to agree. Since there isn't any sources or published articles on this (at least sourced in the article) it appears to be largely bases on original research. Maybe a category could be made as an alternative --sumnjim ^{talk with me·changes} 16:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom & ample precedent. Carlossuarez46 18:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Fit it with some cement shoes. A laundry list of appearances does not constitute an article. Makes no attempt to address the topic of organized crime in the media. Etc. Arkyan • ^(talk) 20:59, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Punkmorten 23:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Mrzaius appears to have been improving this in the month since it was first created. I recommend getting rid of the video games, comics, and music, and distinguish between Prohibition-era gangsters and Vegas-era mobsters. It's a good carve out from the existing topic crime filmsMandsford 23:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. It should be noted that several of the redirects to this article (Gangster film, List of gangster films and List of Mafia movies) have extensive edit histories, thanks to a number of merges and cut&paste moves. Although the current article is a bit of a mess, perhaps there is something useful to be salvaged from it? PC78 23:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOT. Unfocused and unmaintainable article. Eusebeus 12:15, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: if kept it should be renamed. It is not about organized crime in general, only about one of its facets. Whether this or a something new, article like this will exist on WP as the topic is definitely one of the most popular. Pavel Vozenilek 22:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep potentially sourceable and verifiable, it might become a very interesting one in case it would be integrated and expanded rather than simply deleted. However I agree this should not be a mere list of Mafia-related movies and books, but consider the real impact of organized crime behaviours and characters in popular culture. --Angelo 00:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete because like the nominator said, this is a directory. Categories already exist for these items, and there's no encyclopedic value in putting these loosely-associated entries together into a list of indiscriminate trivia to convey the so-called topic of organized crime in popular culture. Seriously, someone needs to write a prose article of some entity in popular culture based on significant coverage from independent, secondary sources, to put this listcruft and all the rest to shame. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:47, 2 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.