Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walruses in popular culture

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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. Sr13 08:09, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walruses in popular culture

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List of loosely associated terms, fails WP:NOT#DIR. Jay32183 01:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - loosely associated collection of trivia:
    • E:3= is commonly used on the Internet as an emoticon that refers to walrus's face.
    • Frost Walrus is one of the Maverick bosses in the video game Mega Man X4.
    • In Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey put French fries in his mouth and pretended to be a walrus.
  • We are safely not losing any information removing this article. --Haemo 02:34, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • STRONG Delete NOT the place to document every time an animal is mentioned in a movie/book!! Corpx 02:49, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Oysterguitarist 04:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. X in popular culture articles and sections are unmaintainable and will never amount to more than trivia. A Traintalk 06:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete the only RSes I can find mentioning the Walrus as a pop culture phenomenon all relate to the Beatles and the is Paul dead? business, hardly enough, as we have lots of coverage of that "controversy". Carlossuarez46 06:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, salt and steal their ivory Jesus wept. Lugnuts 08:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, loosely associated etc. Punkmorten 10:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as good-faith contribution from inexperienced user who doesn't quite know what Wikipedia is not.-h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 10:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. per above. It is good-faith, but it fails WP:NOT. Walruscruft. Bart133 (t) (c) 17:56, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. I did read the article, and it suggests that there isn't much to say about walruses in popular culture. The only really good one I've seen about animals in pop culture had to be the recently deleted Turtles and tortoises in popular culture, which I think was snuffed out in a fit of misplaced intellectual snobbery. In this case, however, there's not much... a walrus is one of the charaters in Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter and the Beatles wrote a song called I Am the Walrus. I did like the mention of kids putting pencils in their noses and it's description as a "reasonably popular game". Sorry, Abcfox. Do some googling (especially Google books), get familiar with the poem and the song, and consider bringing this back in a better form. Mandsford 19:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Irredeemable, like most "in popular culture" articles. Greg Grahame 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I also want to point out Wikipedia would safely not lose anything by deleting half the articles in Category:Animals in popular culture as well. Abcfox 23:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete another one of those travia-like popular culture-type articles that does not warrant a separate article from the parent one.--JForget 23:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, as per nom, and as all articles like this should be deleted. It made me laugh a bit though. Jackrm 23:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Goo goo g'delete (doesn't really scan, does it?) as loosely associated "in pop culture" trivia article. Confusing Manifestation 01:49, 9 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.