Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Psychedelics 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; there is no sourced information in this article that can be merged anywhere. --Coredesat 04:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Psychedelics in popular culture

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Collection of unrelated instances of psychedelics in fiction. While some content belongs at the individual articles, there is no overarching structure to this article, and there are no references to allow any useful analysis. --Eyrian 20:15, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as indiscriminate collection of info. Useight 20:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with other articles about psychedelics or narcotics. Since drug abuse is a major concern in education and law enforcement, a familiarity with drug culture references isn't silly, nor is a list of drug movies trivial. When strict censorship laws come back to America, we'll need to know stuff like this when we want to be on the town's Board of Censors. Mandsford 22:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - indiscriminate list of trivia and directory of loosely associated topics. The items on the list are unrelated to each other past what is in most instances a passing reference. Otto4711 23:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep for obvious reasons. --140.254.225.30 23:29, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

• Would you care to share one or two of those reasons with the rest of the class? Otto4711 00:17, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - indiscriminate collection of every possible mention of psychedelics. Unsourced trivia should be deleted, not given its own article. --Haemo 23:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 09:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 09:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, seems quite encyclopedic, although conversion from bulleted list to article form would be ideal. The sources in "Further reading" -- which certainly aren't the only sources on this topic -- would seem to be good sources for a more thorough and sophisticated approach. Trivial references to psychedelics shouldn't be included, of course, but many of those included are not trivial and definitely deserve a place in our encyclopedic coverage of this topic ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," for example). Not all "popular culture" articles are trivial in nature. -- Visviva 10:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete because this is quite clearly a list of trivia that shows no boundaries. Per directory standards, most of the entries are not famous because they have a mention of the concept. Even if some entries are known for the presence of psychedelics, the article still does not meet notability standards. The topic is supposed to be explored through "significant coverage" that address the subject of psychedelics in popular culture directly, instead of extracting it from the firsthand observations of the editors themselves. Look at the two books in "Further reading" -- that literature and similar types need to be drawn upon to write a prose article about psychedelics in popular culture, not a list of indiscriminate details in an attempt to synthesize an argument by the editors themselves. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. and others.--JayJasper 13:49, 27 June 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.