Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional countries

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 Keep - Consensus is that it is a useful index. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 00:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[]

List of fictional countries[edit]

List of loosely associated topics, ranging from trivial to central, unacceptable per WP:NOT#DIR. What's Eurasia got to do with Elbonia? Eyrian 23:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Delete list of loosely associated topics. This documentation of everything ever mentioned in a fictional work has got to stop. All trivial information and have no direction to each other except that they were all stuff mentioned in a fictional work Corpx 23:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Keep as a valid index of material which does get covered in sources like [1]. Oh, and did you see Fictional country? If there's anything to be done, maybe merging with that, or splitting the lists off. FrozenPurpleCube 23:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[]

That covers the main article. It doesn't make anything like this enormous list worthwhile. --Eyrian 23:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Index to material. Very convenient. Especially since several of the countries do have articles. FrozenPurpleCube 00:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Better done by a category, with subcats if need be. --Eyrian 00:10, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Worse done with a category, since all categories provide is names, and don't cover non-articles. I've never understood the preference categories to the point of excluding lists. Even at their best, I find them less informative than I do any but the poorer lists. FrozenPurpleCube 02:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

That Fictional country article is full of WP:OR Corpx 23:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Hence my preference for a bare list that doesn't take a position. Feel free to tag it for cleanup. FrozenPurpleCube 00:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Keep per Manticore. And categories and subcategories ("subcats") of fictional countries? That's supposed to be a good idea? Help me Jesus. Mandsford 01:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Keep. Another in a series of poorly thought-out and unsubstantiated nominations of fiction-related articles. These nominations are damaging to Wikipedia and should stop, it being very obvious that Wikipedia has precedent for these kinds of lists and in no respect forbids them. It should also be obvious to anyone that Ruritania, Graustark, Syldavia, Orsinia and so on belong to a common genre of fiction which is worthy of study. This kind of bringing material together is highly helpful. RandomCritic 02:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Keep as per Manticore, Mandsford. Edward321 02:42, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

Keep. The list is useful and interesting. Fictional countries play different roles and the examples given provide a good way to identify them: exotic settings, utopias, dystopias, stereotype countries, satires and so on.Tavilis 09:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[]

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.