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WP:LISTCRUFT, specifically that it is too broad to effectively update and maintain. This really only functions as a category. The content is also largely unreferenced and almost entirely skewed towards gaming and anime, which is ridiculous as there is plenty of fiction set in the 21st century. It's useless for the average reader for this reason.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)12:26, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Rework/retitle per some of the discussion in the article talk. I would support something similar to what I suggested there, with the current article moved to "fictional futures of the 21st century" and a new article for 21st century fiction potentially created (or maybe not, as that would probably turn into listcruft), or else a merge into a broader "fiction set in the near future" type article, such as @
Johnpacklambert: suggested on my talk page (ping him into this discussion as he seems to have interest).
BlackholeWA (
talk)
13:25, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - Much like the mentioned
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Far future in fiction, I do think there is potential for some kind of prose article on the concept to be made for this one. However, as this current list is nothing but a very poorly sourced mess of
WP:TRIVIA and pop culture references, there is nothing that should actually be retained in order to do so. I think an article on a broader topic as suggested by BlackholeWA is a fine idea, but again, this does not need to be kept in order for that to happen, as there is essentially nothing of value here.
Rorshacma (
talk)
18:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete what we have here at present is a total mess that ignores the vast majority of fiction actually with this setting. There is potential for exploring the changing ideas of what the 21st-century would be like and how this has been expressed in fiction. We would need sourcing to prose articles that discuss this, not just original research directly connecting to works of fiction that depict this. To keep this we would need actual reliable source sourcing which we currently lack. Do not get me started on how irregular it is to treat this as a sub-set of fiction of the future when some of hte century is now in the past.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
14:54, 5 October 2020 (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.
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.
Delete Per
WP:LISTCRUFT, specifically that it is too broad to effectively update and maintain. This really only functions as a category. The content is also largely unreferenced and almost entirely skewed towards gaming and anime, which is ridiculous as there is plenty of fiction set in the 21st century. It's useless for the average reader for this reason.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)12:26, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Rework/retitle per some of the discussion in the article talk. I would support something similar to what I suggested there, with the current article moved to "fictional futures of the 21st century" and a new article for 21st century fiction potentially created (or maybe not, as that would probably turn into listcruft), or else a merge into a broader "fiction set in the near future" type article, such as @
Johnpacklambert: suggested on my talk page (ping him into this discussion as he seems to have interest).
BlackholeWA (
talk)
13:25, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - Much like the mentioned
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Far future in fiction, I do think there is potential for some kind of prose article on the concept to be made for this one. However, as this current list is nothing but a very poorly sourced mess of
WP:TRIVIA and pop culture references, there is nothing that should actually be retained in order to do so. I think an article on a broader topic as suggested by BlackholeWA is a fine idea, but again, this does not need to be kept in order for that to happen, as there is essentially nothing of value here.
Rorshacma (
talk)
18:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete what we have here at present is a total mess that ignores the vast majority of fiction actually with this setting. There is potential for exploring the changing ideas of what the 21st-century would be like and how this has been expressed in fiction. We would need sourcing to prose articles that discuss this, not just original research directly connecting to works of fiction that depict this. To keep this we would need actual reliable source sourcing which we currently lack. Do not get me started on how irregular it is to treat this as a sub-set of fiction of the future when some of hte century is now in the past.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
14:54, 5 October 2020 (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
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