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How is this indiscriminate? It only has 13 entries, all cities and larger geographical locations, with details on all of them. If it were just a list of every place mentioned in the
Simpsons that does not exist in the real world (including stores, streets, etc.) I could understand "indiscriminate" as
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Not that I don't appreciate what you're saying; when I first came here, I was aghast at how many articles had some mention of "The
Simpsons", although I have seen that the system takes care of itself... thus, if an article about Lee Harvey Oswald somehow has added to it a mention of his name by Lisa
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They are not difficult to source/verify. Even if there were no books or articles on the subject, much of the content can be verified by simply watching the episodes in question.
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Since when is nominating seven articles for deletion a pogrom on fiction? I could've done a lot more.
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