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I agree that this page is too short, but I do feel like the Ip editor brings up an important issues that Wikipedia has, there has been a ton of deletions recently of fiction which I believe may have been done far too hastely.
★Trekker (
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17:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)reply
To which guideline do you refer? There's no requirement that list items be individually notable (although it may be a criteria for some lists.)
pburka (
talk)
11:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Light Merge - to
List of fictional vehicles - The single source, while not bad, is the only one found so far, and generally topics need to have multiple sources to establish notability. Even
WP:LISTN indicates that stand alone lists need to be discussed as a group by independent reliable sources. There really is not enough there for this to pass
WP:LISTN as a list or the
WP:GNG as an article on its own, but could easily be used to support the broader topic of fictional vehicles, and the examples in this list that are actually mentioned in that one cited paper can be merged to that article. I do want to point out that there is a difference between a fictional bus and a real-world bus that just happens to appear in fiction, since it wouldn't be particularly helpful if that list becomes glutted with every time a bus happened to show up in a movie or TV show.
Rorshacma (
talk)
16:04, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Light merge per
Rorshacma—who also makes the excellent point that fictional buses ≠ buses in fiction. Presumably
Otto Mann's bus or the buses in On the Buses shouldn't be included, for instance. (Suggest that if the article is to be kept, it needs a criterion for inclusion: perhaps that the buses are notable, or that they're given a name.)
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)21:19, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment in addition to the
book I mentioned when I deprodded the page, I've found a journal paper in College Literature which explicitly connects Steinbeck's "Sweetheart" to Speed's "25/25", and discusses the motif of buses in American fiction (although most of the actual buses are generic unnamed vehicles).
pburka (
talk)
21:27, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Pburka, The sources you've found seem great for a "buses in popular culture" article (or perhaps more specifically "buses in American fiction"), but this feels like a case for
WP:TNT to be applied—to me, that seems like a fundamentally different (and indeed better) article than the one we've got here.
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)21:48, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Could we have a better article about buses in fiction? Hell yes. There's clearly a lot of material on this topic that we could draw on to write an in depth article about the topic. Does that mean we should demolish this perfectly serviceable list article? I don't think so. This is like the town that demolishes its shabby Victorian train station to make room for a proposed skyscraper with no financing in place, leaving an overgrown empty lot in the town center for decades. We can have a list and a deeper prose article; but nobody's lining up to write that page, and we've got this one that just needs a bit of cleanup.
pburka (
talk)
22:03, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Pburka, I grew up in that town! I suppose my point is that at the point all that material was added, this would no longer be a "list of fictional buses" article, so it makes more sense to start that afresh. TNT wasn't quite appropriate here for what I'm suggesting, I guess—in particular, I'm not advocating deleting anything wholesale, just moving (most of) the examples somewhere else.
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)22:24, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Perhaps we were neighbours growing up! I don't object to moving the content (in fact I initially proposed that). I do think the
List of fictional vehicles page is a bit of a mess, and might serve us best as a simple list of lists.
pburka (
talk)
22:33, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge to
list of fictional vehicles for now. These kinds of lists are a hit or miss at AFD, and we are due to find a more consistent solution. Many of them accumulate a lot of messy and inaccurate trivia, and are often worse than just viewing the category. But until we find a way to turn categories into dynamics lists somehow, I think we're going to keep having case-by-case discussions like this. And we'll have to find a consensus one-by-one.
Shooterwalker (
talk)
20:15, 28 July 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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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.
I agree that this page is too short, but I do feel like the Ip editor brings up an important issues that Wikipedia has, there has been a ton of deletions recently of fiction which I believe may have been done far too hastely.
★Trekker (
talk)
17:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)reply
To which guideline do you refer? There's no requirement that list items be individually notable (although it may be a criteria for some lists.)
pburka (
talk)
11:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Light Merge - to
List of fictional vehicles - The single source, while not bad, is the only one found so far, and generally topics need to have multiple sources to establish notability. Even
WP:LISTN indicates that stand alone lists need to be discussed as a group by independent reliable sources. There really is not enough there for this to pass
WP:LISTN as a list or the
WP:GNG as an article on its own, but could easily be used to support the broader topic of fictional vehicles, and the examples in this list that are actually mentioned in that one cited paper can be merged to that article. I do want to point out that there is a difference between a fictional bus and a real-world bus that just happens to appear in fiction, since it wouldn't be particularly helpful if that list becomes glutted with every time a bus happened to show up in a movie or TV show.
Rorshacma (
talk)
16:04, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Light merge per
Rorshacma—who also makes the excellent point that fictional buses ≠ buses in fiction. Presumably
Otto Mann's bus or the buses in On the Buses shouldn't be included, for instance. (Suggest that if the article is to be kept, it needs a criterion for inclusion: perhaps that the buses are notable, or that they're given a name.)
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)21:19, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment in addition to the
book I mentioned when I deprodded the page, I've found a journal paper in College Literature which explicitly connects Steinbeck's "Sweetheart" to Speed's "25/25", and discusses the motif of buses in American fiction (although most of the actual buses are generic unnamed vehicles).
pburka (
talk)
21:27, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Pburka, The sources you've found seem great for a "buses in popular culture" article (or perhaps more specifically "buses in American fiction"), but this feels like a case for
WP:TNT to be applied—to me, that seems like a fundamentally different (and indeed better) article than the one we've got here.
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)21:48, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Could we have a better article about buses in fiction? Hell yes. There's clearly a lot of material on this topic that we could draw on to write an in depth article about the topic. Does that mean we should demolish this perfectly serviceable list article? I don't think so. This is like the town that demolishes its shabby Victorian train station to make room for a proposed skyscraper with no financing in place, leaving an overgrown empty lot in the town center for decades. We can have a list and a deeper prose article; but nobody's lining up to write that page, and we've got this one that just needs a bit of cleanup.
pburka (
talk)
22:03, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Pburka, I grew up in that town! I suppose my point is that at the point all that material was added, this would no longer be a "list of fictional buses" article, so it makes more sense to start that afresh. TNT wasn't quite appropriate here for what I'm suggesting, I guess—in particular, I'm not advocating deleting anything wholesale, just moving (most of) the examples somewhere else.
YorkshireLad ✿ (talk)22:24, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Perhaps we were neighbours growing up! I don't object to moving the content (in fact I initially proposed that). I do think the
List of fictional vehicles page is a bit of a mess, and might serve us best as a simple list of lists.
pburka (
talk)
22:33, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Merge to
list of fictional vehicles for now. These kinds of lists are a hit or miss at AFD, and we are due to find a more consistent solution. Many of them accumulate a lot of messy and inaccurate trivia, and are often worse than just viewing the category. But until we find a way to turn categories into dynamics lists somehow, I think we're going to keep having case-by-case discussions like this. And we'll have to find a consensus one-by-one.
Shooterwalker (
talk)
20:15, 28 July 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.