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The result was delete. Sr 13 01:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Antimatter in popular culture[edit]

A very trivial list of mentions isn't very encyclopedic. These types of lists aren't encyclopedic. Relevant information should be in the main article: not branched off into an ever growing list of cruft. RobJ1981 11:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This reads to me as if you just do not like popular culture references. This one seems to be one of the best. It is not just a list. The section in antimatter is already too long. I prefer it here rather than mixed up with the science. --Bduke 12:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletions. -- Bduke 12:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ahh, another one of those Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles. WP:TRIVIA clearly says to avoid lists of loosely related information and a "subject in popular culture" is explicitly named as being part of this. Judging by the archives of previous debates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Popular culture, it seems that most articles were either deleted, merged, or redirected. Spellcast 12:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, don't merge. Another junkpile of unrelated trivia. Doesn't belong in Antimatter, either. --Calton | Talk 13:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:FIVE - Not a trivia collection. Not the place to document uses of ___ in TV/books/games etc Corpx 16:32, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Classic IPC article with unsourced trivia elements.--JForget 16:59, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It's certainly not one of the best IPC lists. For a start, there are no sources offered to establish that antimatter in popular culture is a notable phenomenon in the first place. If it would reduce the quality if the antimatter article (which I'm sure it would, as does the existing IPC section) the solution is to delete it from that article, not to spin it off into a completely pointless article, which is just an indiscriminate directory of trivia. Iain99 20:02, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unencyclopedic, WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, and as list-cruft. --Action Jackson IV 00:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A song once contained the word "antimatter". In a comic someone said the word "antimatter" once. Did someone say this list "seems to be one of the best"? We must be looking at two different lists. Crazysuit 04:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Move to a subpage of the talk page, do not delete, but edit it for eventual merging into the article in chief on antimatter. Antimatter is certainly a widely used scientific explanation in science fiction books, films, and comics. The properties and uses to which antimatter is put in these entertainments may seem implausible to physicists. Denying that this is not noteworthy, or claiming that the article on antimatter ought to be exclusively concerned with Pure Science and kept free of these imaginative uses of the concept, strikes me as too fastidious. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Bduke. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 03:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an unsourced, unencyclopedic list of indiscriminate information. María (críticame) 12:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep understanding popular culture is key to any encyclopedia V8rik 17:45, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all %SUBJECT% in popular culture lists, they are nothing but trivia and violate the five pillars of Wikipedia as well. Burntsauce 18:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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