The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was DELETE. Listcruft, unsourcable. Mo0[talk] 01:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of personifications of Death in fiction[edit]

Not unlike all these "in popular culture" articles. List is potentially too long to be of any interest and is currently a dump of trivial and rather random information with no encyclopedic value. (not to mention dubious entries like The Doors) Pascal.Tesson 17:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Like the rest of these sorts of lists, it's unreferenced, unencyclopedic, and fails inclusion criteria. There is simply no reason to have these lists of trivial appearances of whatever, wherever. Arkyan 17:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - indiscriminate list and directory seeking to capture any appearance of "Death" or any character who in the opinion of an editor might represent Death with no regard to the importance of the character either within or outside the fiction. This is marginally better than the previously deleted list of personifications of evil since at least some of these characters are actually called "Death" but the POV/OR problems are too great. Otto4711 18:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Totally agree with above contributors. Also, there was recently a similar list along the lines of Apperance of God in ... that was vote delete for the same reasons. HagenUK 20:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Listcruft. Maybe I'm being cynical, bit it boggles my mind that someone went to the trouble to compile this. Realkyhick 21:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You mean Deathcruft. :-) Pascal.Tesson 21:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (edit conflict) far too arbitrary and unverified of a list.-- danntm ^T _C 21:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as-is I think an article like this might be interesting if it only showed personifications of Death that were not obviously based on the Grim Reaper or other skeletal death figures. But I doubt anyone will want to go to the trouble of sourcing that. Not me, that's for damn sure. JuJube 00:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, weakly. Much of this material was spun off of Death (personification), where many similar entries stand that are presented with slightly more analysis. (I am one of the original creators of that article.) This stuff isn't very good, and the better of it is already duplicated there. There should be some kind of intermediate place we can send lists like this for future reference, in case someone wants to organize these lists into text. - Smerdis of Tlön 05:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We have that, it's called userspace. Anyone can keep pretty much anything they want there. Otto4711 19:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Very general list with a weak common ground, since the personification of death is also very general. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 06:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I created the page to be a holding site for the list of personifications of Death in fiction, which was originally a part of Personifications of Death. Yes, it's very anti-WP, but I was afraid of the backlash that might result from deleting so much material. Blueaster 04:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The tide is overwhelmingly in favor of deletion here, so I'm not even going to fight it with a vote for "keep". A cursory glance at the article does show it's in complete disarray, yes. The article is linked to as a sub-section from Death (personification), which is a legitimate sub-category for that legitimate article. However, a comprehensive guide to this would overwhelm the Death (personification) article. So, the appropriate solution is to either compress the information down to the most notable examples and place it back into the Death (personification) article as a non-comprehensive section, or vastly clean up the article, perhaps so that it is more than simply a list? Just some observations/suggestions. Elijya 05:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with that suggestion is that if any of this stuff gets merged back to the main article it will serve as a license to any editor to add his or her favorite example to the list, which will cause the section to swell, which will lead someone to spin it off into a sub-article, and the cycle continues. 12:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree, that is a potential problem, but an article about the personification of Death is hardly complete without SOME mention of the hundreds of fictional examples of it. Elijya 13:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at the article. There are a huge number of examples from "popular fiction," broken down by medium. Probably too many. No more are needed. Otto4711 15:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment there's a category devoted to these things. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 04:31, 27 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.