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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:57, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yale University in popular culture[edit]

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The same case as with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johns Hopkins University in popular culture, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanford University in popular culture and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tulane University in popular culture. A mostly unreferenced collection of trivia aka list of works that mention Yale University. Such a list fails WP:LISTN, and the article fails WP:GNG/WP:IPC. The best source seems to be this article Vulture (magazine), but it's rather tongue-in-cheek, although at least it mentions a few works (it is also narrowly focused on teenage characters in movies, and I don't think we can extrapolate from that to the broad topic of YU in pop-culture). At best, I'd suggest redirecting this to Yale_University#In_fiction_and_popular_culture, and adding the Vulture reference there (it seems more relevant than what is present there right now). And I guess if someone cares, this is ok to mention the Batman connection there, too. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:40, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Popular culture, Education, Schools, and Connecticut. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:40, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per consensus at the Tulane and Stanford cases. A shortened version of this list should be on the Yale article, but currently it is an arbitrary collection of information with no notability per WP:SALAT. Toadspike (talk) 10:58, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The list is largely a collection of uncited trivia and original research. While I am under the impression that an article could theoretically exist under this title, the current one would need to be destroyed so that a new one could be created. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 11:40, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While a small prose section on the topic already exists on the main Yale University article and could potentially be expanded, this is just a list of largely non-notable trivia (nearly all of these entries are things like "Yale is mentioned in this" or "this character is said to have gone to Yale") with no actual sourced discussion of the topic as a whole. Rorshacma (talk) 15:05, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:OR and nothing to WP:PRESERVE, per Susmuffin. In the outside chance there are sources for this topic, you would have to start a new article from scratch. Shooterwalker (talk) 22:03, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Shooterwalker's argument is very compelling. It's past time for WP:WikiProject Content. Are we going to be an academic work that will actually endure like Britannica or a pop culture flash? 209.141.120.92 (talk) 18:10, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Totally unsalvageable. This is trivia which fundamentally is unencyclopedic. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 18:59, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, with thanks to Susmuffin and Shooterwalker for clarity of thought and focus on the purpose of this encyclopedia. We should be collectively vigilant against such WP:OR promoting trivia. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 19:59, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete For a second I assumed it was already deleted. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 06:46, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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