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Time and fate deities in popular culture

The way to deal with bloated trivia sections in articles is to prune them, not to sp[lit them out into whole new "articles" comprised of nothing but trivia, especially when much of it is unsourced and appears to draw novel syntheses from other sources. Oh, and redlinked bands are not a good sign either. Guy (Help!) 09:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of trivia. KleenupKrew (talk) 10:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as written, though it's certainly possible that a few of these are notable enough to appear in the respective deities' main article. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 11:35, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. —Lenticel ^(talk) 12:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Deor (talk) 12:18, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete As per previous comments.Ecoleetage (talk) 14:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Wikipedia:Lists (discrminate and organized list of notable subjects) and per Wikipedia:Five pillars ( notability to a real-world audience, verifiable, consistent with a “specialized encyclopedia” concerning fictional topics with importance in the real world). Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 16:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I am highly sympathetic to this article, but without references that show that associated with time and fate dieties across cultures have been studied as a unit, the subject of this article inherently creates an original synthesis. If such references are found -- note, even if the studies do not explicitly deal with popular culture -- then grouping these dieties is no longer synthesis and this list then becomes a spinoff of a (possibly not yet written) article about the set, and how such deities are alike and different in various cultures. If such references are found within the 5-day discussion period, I'll !vote keep; if not, then the various sections should be merged/copied to the invidivual diety articles. —Quasirandom (talk) 17:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It's been awhile since I've seen an ipc article nominated. Someone worked very hard on this, but it's a mess on several levels-- trying to combine the "Three Fates", "Father Time", "Janus" and other mythical characters that fall in the Wikipedia Category of "Time and Fate Deities"; listing every reference in a movie, book, or game to one of the characters; and throwing in unsourced statements (maybe Anakin Skywalker was named for a Greek goddess, but I've never heard that one before). Like Quasi, I'm not inclined to vote keep either. 72.151.55.27 (talk) 18:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 *'''Keep''' per [[Wikipedia:Lists]] (discrminate and organized list of notable subjects) and per [[Wikipedia:Five pillars]] ( notability to a real-world audience, verifiable, consistent with a “specialized encyclopedia” concerning fictional topics with importance in the real world).  Sincerely, --<font face="Times New Roman">[[User:Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles|<span style="color:#009">Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles</span>]]</font><sup>''[[User talk:Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles|Tally-ho!]]''</sup> 16:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * '''Comment''': I am highly sympathetic to this article, but without references that show that associated with time and fate dieties across cultures have been studied as a unit, the subject of this article inherently creates an original synthesis. If such references are found -- note, even if the studies do not explicitly deal with popular culture -- then grouping these dieties is no longer synthesis and this list then becomes a spinoff of a (possibly not yet written) article about the set, and how such deities are alike and different in various cultures. If such references are found within the 5-day discussion period, I'll !vote keep; if not, then the various sections should be merged/copied to the invidivual diety articles. —[[User:Quasirandom|Quasirandom]] ([[User talk:Quasirandom|talk]]) 17:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
+*'''Comment''' It's been awhile since I've seen an ipc article nominated.  Someone worked very hard on this, but it's a mess on several levels-- trying to combine the "Three Fates", "Father Time", "Janus" and other mythical characters that fall in the Wikipedia Category of "Time and Fate Deities"; listing every reference in a movie, book, or game to one of the characters; and throwing in unsourced statements (maybe Anakin Skywalker ''was'' named for a Greek goddess, but I've never heard that one before).  Like Quasi, I'm not inclined to vote keep either. [[Special:Contributions/72.151.55.27|72.151.55.27]] ([[User talk:72.151.55.27|talk]]) 18:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)