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531:: The nominator's arguments are undercut by their tone of disdain for the subject, and disrespect for the people participating in this discussion. "A ham sandwich could pass LISTN, LISTN is broken" is not a good reason to delete this article. If you have a problem with the policy, then you should try to get the policy amended. Use of the word "(x)cruft" usually means a barely-concealed 395:
Some of the fandom names are very poorly sourced, e.g. to social media post or fan sites. But this is not a good argument for deletion; the correct remedy is to resource these list items or delete them from the list. Other sources are reliable, but do not imply notability because they discuss only a
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Uh no, practically none of these are notable. And the existence of an extremely sparse handful that do actually qualify for articles doesn't justify the existence of this entire list. This isn't a list of fandoms; this is a list of the nickname of fandoms (or members thereof). Not only that, but
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just below the surface, but "a list of the most obscure shit we can find" is saying the subtext out loud. Also, blowing off 210 sources as "mostly garbage" is a heavy lift; shrugging off good-quality sources when they're identified doesn't help. I get that the nominator really doesn't like this
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the cocreator of the shows uses the term. The Knowledge article claims it didn't catch on, but it's used a lot in the online fan communities and also the show's executive producers use it in the DVD commentaries. Anyway, reliable sources say these are the names used, so that's what we go by.
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43 of them link to their own articles, so I don't see why you would call that "extremely sparse handful". There are 210 references, if you have a problem with any of them discuss it on the talk page or search for a better one with a simple Google news search.
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A ham sandwich could past LISTN. LISTN is broken. And it's being applied too casually here anyway. Just because you can find a couple puff pieces about naming of fandoms doesn't mean we should have a list of the most obscure shit we can find. The
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fandoms are very much a legitimate subject matter. Some might be more prominent than others (i.e. Deadheads for Grateful Dead and Trekkies for Star Trek are probably among the most famous), but I wouldn't call this listcruft.
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I fail to see how this is a list of fandom names and not "a list of names someone once referred to the fandom as". Outside of extremely well-known names like
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The sourcing for some of the items is suboptimal, but that's an argument to tag or trim those rows in the table, not to delete the whole page.
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is on-topic, but the analysis is a little shallow. Others may take issue at the reliability as well. Seems a decent source to show notability.
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Way too much of this list is based on one twitter statement and other weak sourcing. There is no justfication for this list.
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of fandom names as a whole. Overall, we should look for more sources like the two listed above to confirm notability.
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itself is a notable topic, as are many of the listed fandoms; the question here is whether this article passes
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piece could be used to add some content to the Fandom article itself, but it doesn't justify the existence of
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Some of these fandoms have their own articles. All are notable since reliable sources cover them.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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but trim the article/remove bad sources. Fandom names are a notable social phenomenon. --
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is great; directly discusses "'names of fandoms" and passes all the requirements of
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article. All I can do is offer support in this difficult time. —
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources
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