Talk:Gulliver
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Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion July 5 to July 13 2004, page was turned into a disambig. Discussion:
Fictional character from the Nintendo Animal Crossing game series. Scanning the article, and searching Wikipedia for Nintendo Animal Crossing seems to indicate that VERY few characters were deemed, by the many contributors to the rather lengthy article, to need a separate article (only two exist--also making gulliver an orphan), and I support that position 110%. Niteowlneils 01:07, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. All definitions are not created equal, and the world will not long remember (or miss) a Nintendo character. But obscuring Jonathan Swift's character with this ephemeron is a cultural crime. -- orthogonal 02:41, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I may be alone in finding things like this interesting, but I suppose there wouldn't be any harm in merging it, assuming there is not much more to say about the character than this article already says. Everyking 04:52, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: useless pseudoinformation & name collision with a real topic. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:52, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. No way should this be allowed to obscure the literary reference. "Useless pseudoinformation" really does apply here. - Lucky 6.9 06:30, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Delete please! As a Swift fan, I'd love it if "Gulliver" (with a capital letter and lower case) redirected only to the fairly good Gulliver's Travels article. It would be a sad thing for a user looking for book report material to hand in something based on Nintendo because she or he couldn't find the shift key. Geogre 01:28, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I redirected Gulliver to Gulliver's Travels. So no need to delete. Gdr 12:22, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
- Perhaps it should be a disambig instead? It's also a place in Michigan (about which we apparently don't have an article, but could use one). Everyking 21:05, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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- Along those lines, there are other (now obsolete) meanings for the word, as well as the use in A Clockwork Orange as faux-Russian for "head." A lot of things got called Gullivers after the book came out. The ones I can think of are more lexical than encyclopedic, though. Geogre 22:04, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Disambiguate rather than redirect, on the Michigan basis alone. -- Jmabel 03:04, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)
Disambiguate, There's also a silent and B western actress named Dorothy Gulliver. I don't know if she will make it into the Wiki any time soon, but she had a huge filmography. Besides if Gulliver is a Nintendo character, it's going to be submitted again and again and again Williamb 13:42, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC) (Vote moved here from vfd main space by Graham ☺ | Talk) Hey, I think we should include the school Gulliver Prepatory. It would help the users. End discussion
