Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European mythology

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 without prejudice to the creation of an actual article under this title. That's pretty much the same thing as the "keep and rewrite" also being proposed here, since there's really not much worth keeping here. "Wikipedia articles are not mere collections of external links or Internet directories". Sandstein 05:45, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] European mythology

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In my opinion, this article is a collection of links redundant to Category:European Mythology FisherQueen (Talk) 13:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep but totally rewrite - The nominator is quite right that this article is a redundant collection of links with little or no information; however, the title is certainly a suitable topic for an article. This article needs to be stubified and then completely rewritten, with sources, to provide an overview of the European mythological tradition. But "this article is bad" isn't per se a reason to delete an article. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 15:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This article is so extraordinarily bad in conception that there is no point in keeping it. The category deals with the different traditions. A serious article comparing them would have to start from scratch. DGG 16:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Sjors said in the talk page that they were working on it in November, but haven't touched it since then. They also mentioned that it was being used by another project or something like that. If the user was active, I'd recommend userspace, so they could continue working on it if they wished. As is, I'm not sure Category:European mythology doesn't do everything this article does, but eventually an article would be good here. Smmurphy^(Talk) 17:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and rewrite. The article is a good one in theory, it's just that someone's hijacked it with a bunch of links. --Hemlock Martinis 23:07, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - I can agree that this is a valid topic for an article, but there is absolutely nothing in the current article that could be kept to seed such an article. -- Whpq 17:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Ad-hoc collection (at least for Bohemia) of Wiki and external links w/o any context. For a valid article the mythology should not be structured by modern national states, that's absurd. Pavel Vozenilek 00:21, 13 April 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.