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The result was the article to be extinct - deleted. - Mailer Diablo 09:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extinct animals in popular culture (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

This article is effectively a list that attempts to chronicle the appearance of all extinct species in popular culture, ie. a collection indiscriminate information (WP:NOT). There are hundreds of thousands of extinct species (most of the current content are prehistoric - and could probably be merged into Dinosaurs in popular culture), so this list could never be complete (WP:LIST). Delete --Peta 11:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete in popular culture per nom. MER-C 11:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete along with the rest of popular culture Alf^Photoman 13:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Slpit or Delete- I'm sick of trying to complete this list! It should be slpit into little parts like Pterosaurs in in popular culture or Deleted.--74.104.224.214 15:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please log in before voting.--JyriL ^talk 21:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Popular delete - WP:NOT#IINFO. Need I say more? Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 15:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT. Yet another "X in popular culture". With any luck these articles will go extinct, too. Arkyan 16:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Abstain. I don't mind seeing this list being deleted, but since it is almost inevitable that people keep adding such trivia junk articles like this might be useful so the factual articles can be kept clean. This is already done with astronomical articles (cf. Stars and planetary systems in fiction). If not deleted, this list should be splitted into smaller lists. If deleted, the content should not be restored in respective animal articles.--JyriL ^talk 21:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: the role of "... in popular culture" articles is to move this stuff away from the main articles, to keep it more on topic and more maintainable. This article serves provides such a service for several serious texts. If it gets deleted people will add popular culture references into main articles again, making the situation worse than it is now. Pavel Vozenilek 22:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, people need to be bold and delete trivial content when it appears instead of creating articles for it to collect in. Krimpet 23:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. No chance of it ever being completed (it's already grown to, um, mammoth size), and quite trivial. WP:NOT definitely applies. Make it like a dodo. Grutness...wha? 00:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia articles should NOT exist just to divert "junk trivia" from more serious articles. Saikokira 03:25, 17 March 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.