Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mice in fiction

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, to be cleaned up, redirectified or merged as consensus decides. Daniel Case 06:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mice in fiction

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Clarityfiend 20:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep the article needs significant clean up, but it is already tagged as having too much trivia, etc. This is a perfectly reasonable subject for a wikipedia article. Capmango 22:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Campango. From Burns and Kafka to Mickey and Ralph (from Beverly Cleary's TM&TM) to modern day, mice as portrayed in fiction are vastly different from the unsanitary pests that can get one in trouble with the Health Department. Needs to be fixed, but encylopedic enough for World Book.
• Keep. From Mickey Mouse to Ratatouille (film) -oh another editor beat me to it- this could be a legit article, if cleaned-up. Canuckle 23:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Merge with List of fictional mice. Large body of significant works with mice as pivotal characters in them. Chubbles 00:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong delete as redundant to List of fictional mice, which is itself a bit of a shite heap, but will ultimately be better than this compilation of "oh look, a mouse" tripe. Whatever happens, that "mice don't really like cheese" intro must go. Otto4711 00:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

  Those two articles should be merged. Chubbles 00:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

  If we merge, we should merge into Mice in fiction. There should be more information than just a raw list; a general discussion of how mice appear in fiction (and starting when and why etc), is good encyclopaedia information. I agree that "real mice are not like fictional mice" is probably too obvious to need stating. Capmango 01:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep or merge/redirect to List of fictional mice or vice versa... Ranma9617 01:51, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Delete - Wikipedia shouldnt be catalog everytime any fictional piece mentions an animal! Corpx 02:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, per consensus of majority keeps above and also because there are a good deal of mice in fiction to make such a list convenient and relevant. --164.107.222.23 02:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

• You can find "a good deal" of any animal in fiction, but that doesnt mean we should catalog every use Corpx 03:13, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep with cleanup and possible merger per above. Can avoid being listcruft by citing RS that talk about this as a topic (i.e., writing the list is therefore not OR-by-synthesis). See for example [1] DMacks 06:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep with possible merger per DMacks. Carlossuarez46 16:14, 5 July 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.