Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Lost Numbers

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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. - Mailer Diablo 13:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Lost Numbers

I thought there was some general consensus somewhere that we weren't going to have an article on this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to make a page on the numbers ShadowUltra 21:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Delete (or Merge): I have not been involved in those discussions and just came across this page today, so I don't know what has already been decided. The information on it seems to have been carefully gathered and it is interesting to look through, but there is already sort of an entry for the Numbers that other pages refer to, only much smaller and without details like this. I think that this page, as is, isn't really right for Wiki, but I think that the other Numbers article could certainly be fleshed out a lot more on its own. If this page gets deleted, perhaps some mention could be made on that article about the extent to which these numbers are interconnected to the characters and what happens on the island. I like that someone put the work into gathering this info, I just don't know that this is the right forum for it (but I will print it out and show to my Lostfriends!!) Riverbend 19:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
  • It seems like at least part of the first paragraph could be incorporated into the other article for "the Numbers" (I think it is under Mythology of Lost??) Riverbend 20:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I think that under Mythology of Lost the Numbers should definitely have their own heading, not just be under DHARMA Initiative (maybe they are somewhere else and I am just not seeing?). Riverbend 15:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as totally unsourced. And all of the article after the lead paragraph is in all caps. Ouch. Kavadi carrier 14:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Wow, look, no one's ever done this research before, it's totally original. Delete -- IslaySolomon | talk 14:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. It is FILLED with OR and general cruft. Once that all got out, you would be left with "There is a special sequence of numbers, [I'm too lazy to look them up], which have been prominent in the lives of the people on the island. Oh wait, that's already in the main article. -Amarkov babble 15:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - If sources can be found, merge it with the Lost article. Otherwise, it should be deleted. - JNighthawk 16:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete obviously, since I nominated it, I mean, if we have an article on the Numbers, shouldn't we, by that theory, also have an article on say, the Monster? ShadowUltra 18:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge prose back to Mythology of Lost. It was spun off, without any discussion I can discern, in this edit, who then created this article. I, of course, favor the elimination of that long OR list of occurrences of each number.-- danntm T C 19:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
    Delete Okay, now that the material is back in the Mythology article, this article is no longer needed.-- danntm T C 14:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I can't think of a better place for this than Mythology of Lost. The numbers are notable in a pop-culture sense, but they don't need thier own article. Robovski 23:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC) was merge, but the material here has been returned to the Mythology article.
  • Merge per above. Logical solution to argument over this article. Unfocused 01:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge or it will be lost forever, no pun intended, and someone will come back and make a shitter version of it and we'll be in this debate all over again.Simondrake 15:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge - find references, re-write, and merge into Mythology of Lost. --JohnDBuell 18:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge - Merge into Mythology of Lost. When (if?) the story develops enough to expose the real meaning of the numbers it might be split off again if it warrants enough content. (Don't expect a full disclosure on the numbers in the series though). JillesOldenbeuving 20:30, 5 November 2006 (GMT+2)
  • Delete/merge - All we need is the first paragraph on "mythology of Lost", where it belongs! All this speculation (which I do with my friends in my spare time) does not belong on Wikipedia in this great extent. And FYI, Ana Lucia was shot once and Libby was shot twice! Everyone enjoy your Fifth of November. Cheerio.- JustPhil 19:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge Ppe42 01:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete/merge. The initial portion should be kept and merged into the orginal article, whereas the other is speculation/OR. If necessary, someone should put this speculation on a non-WP web page and then link it. Janbrogger 08:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete (not merge!): this was already part of Mythology of Lost, until it was mysteriously deleted by the originator of this article. I have returned the content. There's no need to expand this fancruft explosion. Notice to those commenting "merge": that is typically "counted" as a "keep"--LeflymanTalk 21:07, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete: Totally unsourced, badly formatted list of original research. The numbers of lost are already covered in Mythology of Lost at a more appropriate length.--Opark 77 19:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, without question, OR and listcruft. Where is this info coming from? Who says that these things are related to the numbers? HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 20:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete If anything was removed from Mythology of Lost to make this page, those things should be put back in that article. The rest of this OR should be deleted. - SigmaEpsilon → ΣΕ
    • Comment I just noticed that Leflyman has replaced the deleted portion pf the Mythology page. - SigmaEpsilon → ΣΕ 23:52, 7 November 2006 (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.