Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of fictional topics

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The result was delete w/salt. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of fictional topics

Back in August the article Lists of fictional things was properly deleted via this AFD. Someone re-created the article a few weeks later, and it was summarily deleted via CSD G4 (re-creation of deleted topics). Now we have Lists of fictional topics, which is a superlist of anything that can be represented in fiction and essentially the same content that was deleted before, with a slight name change. I wholeheartedly believe this is just an end-run around the original AfD, and personally think this should also fall under CSD G4. Being that the name is slightly different, I am relisting here for your consumption. Original AfD was nominated with the following rationale:

WP:NOT - This has got to be the apex of "indiscriminate information". Personal disdain for "list of" articles aside, this one has no hope of ever being complete or useful. It appears to be mostly a "list of list of articles", but I don't see any utility in having an article with such an unimaginable scope. Many, many editors have noted on the talk page the lunacy of this article (though I believe this is the first nomination for deletion). We are an encyclopedia, not a place to list everything that's ever been (or, most especially, a list of things that have never been!).

/Blaxthos 11:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and salt as nominator. /Blaxthos 11:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete That's amazing. Yngvarr (t) (c) 11:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment We already have Category: Lists of fictional things and Category: fictional characters and Category:fictional locations. Perhaps those should be subcategories of a larger category. Mandsford 15:06, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and salt How did this last through August? Unmaintainable, indiscriminate, will never come close to being complete. Blueboy 96 15:58, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and SALT. I agree with the above but, believe it or not, this is NOT the apex of indiscriminate information -- that was List of things, which went AfD this past week. Accounting4Taste 18:06, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This one was not a good idea. DGG (talk) 01:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This does seem a classic case of a topic better approached via the categories that Mandsford mentions. Espresso Addict 02:18, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I bet another apex will pop up within a week. My $10 is on [[List of Apexs of Indiscriminate Information]] Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 04:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DeletePointless artical that could include anything from fictional cars to rabidy anal sex monsters cats. Its basicly an unatainable artical that will spiral out of hand ForeverDEAD 23:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There also is List of basic fiction topics. And List of science fiction topics seems to be similar to List of science fiction themes. Also, Lists of fictional things now is at DRV here. -- Jreferee t/c 00:32, 4 October 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.