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do you think it states what you assert? It's one thing to determine that this article fails; it's another to somehow pull an absolute out of the air that it is impossible for a kind of topic to be notable. You're also equivocating "any single fictional work's conception" of a topic with the
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to create this article without a demonstration of real-world sources to add encyclopedic content, yet the creator went ahead and did it anyway. The information in the article can easily be summarized in the existing entry at
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