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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in popular culture

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I prodded this: and it was removed. This is both cruft, and very trivial. How exactly is a list of mentions/references to these popular characters...helpful? This "popular culture" nonsense needs a lot of cleaning. Why exactly is Wikipedia turning into a mention/appearance guide for just about everything and anything? Exhibit A: Category:Fictional works in popular culture. Exhibit B: Category:In popular culture. Better guidelines need to be made for this, otherwise it's just going to get a lot worse. I know from past experiences with these types of articles: people move a big section from a main article into a new article. While that's not always the case: it still seems to be the case a lot of the time. CONDENSE the section if possible, before just moving it to a new cluttered article. Not everything notable should have a "pop culture" article, which ends up as listcruft, trivia and just clutter. RobJ1981 18:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep article was split out from the main article. Could do with a cleanup/sourcing though. Lugnuts 18:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. My point is already proven then. It seems like people would rather split an article into other ones, instead of condensing very trivial sections. I've heard that cleanup/sourcing excuse many times in AFDs: a lot of the time it never happens. RobJ1981 18:37, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Splitting an article due to overcrowding of encyclopedic information is one thing - forking out a batch of fluff to trim down the parent article is another. Excised junk should head to the garbage bin, not recycled into its own content. No offense toward those who have contributed effort to this article, but a laundry list of trivial mentions/appearances is hardly encyclopedic. Arkyan  ^(talk) 21:34, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - indiscriminate list and directory of loosely-associated topics, in violation of at least two provisions of WP:NOT. A list of every time someone mentions the coyote or the road runner in some other medium, with no regard to the importance of the mention either in the medium from which it's drawn or the real world, does not belong in an encyclopedia. Otto4711 00:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. If any are truly notable they should be in the parent articles. Forking off an '... in popular culture' sub-article is not an adequate response to an overflowing of trivia. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 04:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but include the most significant examples (if there are any) in the main article. Masaruemoto 05:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Meep, meep? Maybe worth throwing this article off a cliff and dropping an anvil on it then... Lugnuts 11:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.