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*'''Delete''' per the nomination, this is another list of loosely associated trivia and violates our ] pillars. ] 16:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC) *'''Delete''' per the nomination, this is another list of loosely associated trivia and violates our ] pillars. ] 16:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
*'''Keep''', if its horribly written, improve the prose; yes it needs referencing, but articles like this are exactly the kind of thing Misplaced Pages excels in. You can either like that or not, but if we delete all the excellent articles on perhaps slightly trivial, but nonetheless interesting topics, not much will be left here to read. --] 12:20, 3 October 2007 (UTC) *'''Keep''', if its horribly written, improve the prose; yes it needs referencing, but articles like this are exactly the kind of thing Misplaced Pages excels in. You can either like that or not, but if we delete all the excellent articles on perhaps slightly trivial, but nonetheless interesting topics, not much will be left here to read. --] 12:20, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
:*No one is suggesting "deleting all the excellent articles." That sort of "oh noes, the sky will fall" argumentation is nonsense. ] 13:33, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Charon in popular culture

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Delete - directory of loosely- and un-associated items. Seeks to capture any appearance of or reference to the mythical figure with no regard to the triviality of the appearance, along with originally researched 'may be based on' or 'resembles' entries and entries for things that are not the mythical figure but have the same name. Tells us nothing about Charon, nothing about the fiction from which the items are drawn, nothing about their (non-existent) relationship to each other and nothing about the real world. Oppose merging any of this to any other article about Charon as it is no less of a trivia collection in another article as it is on its own. Otto4711 15:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. I agree with the well-phrased rationales above (trivia, original research resemblance, and complete lack of context). --68.163.65.119 04:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep WP, as someone said once, makes the internet not suck. that includes organising references to notable characters and themes and assembling the information into articles. The article has been listed for rescue--Im glad to see that some of the people who are a little less ready to keep than I, think it a good candidate for improvement. Sure, it needs improvement., Most WP articles do. DGG (talk) 04:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Again, this is not a debate to whether Charon is notable, that's a given, but it's having a page about various occurances of Charon in "popular culture" that is not notable. This laundry list is even bigger than the main page. Dannycali 06:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge back into Charon. He has always been a popular culture character. Mandsford 16:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and merge I usually don't advocate for merging but the Charon article is pretty lightweight unless I'm missing something. This is an informative list which should be turned into several sections in the main article about Charon's influences in pop culture. Benjiboi 11:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into Charon per WP:POPCULTURE. --Alksub 05:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment a discussion on excessive deletionism, using the afd on this article as one of the obviously absurd examples, is at
good, bad, or indifferent? Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? DGG (talk) 05:14, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Whenever the article title has the words "in popular culture" it is a spin off of a trivia section... aka some writer was too damn lazy to include the more valuable items in paragraph form, and unable to differentiate between content of substance and random facts. It is typically an unreferenced list of poorly jumbled together facts with no cohesion and very little rhyme or reason. This list falls squarely into all of those aforementioned stereotypes. I don't even need to look (but I did) to know its in rough shape. An encyclopedia is not just a loose collection of random facts. WP:NOT a guide to pop trivia. Any of this ringing a bell? Can you grasp my rationale now?  ALKIVAR03:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The list is well associated, especially at it's core. It may need cleaned up and i see no strong argument against merge. otherwise agree with dgg--Buridan 16:14, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per the nomination, this is another list of loosely associated trivia and violates our WP:FIVE pillars. Burntsauce 16:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, if its horribly written, improve the prose; yes it needs referencing, but articles like this are exactly the kind of thing Misplaced Pages excels in. You can either like that or not, but if we delete all the excellent articles on perhaps slightly trivial, but nonetheless interesting topics, not much will be left here to read. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 12:20, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
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