Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of comic book drugs

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 no consensus. I doubt this is going to be a satisfying close for anybody, but I don't see any consensus here. The problem is, NC defaults to keep, which is clearly what almost everybody wants to avoid. So, my recommendation is to just be WP:BOLD, and go ahead and perform the merge anyway. If you do go ahead and do that, I suggest re-reading this AfD to see what kind of cleanup you'll want to do as you perform the merge. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:26, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of comic book drugs

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I filed a merger proposal about 25 days ago. Nobody responded. I'd like to throw out the following reasons for deletion:

It is an unnecessary content fork of List of fictional medicines and drugs. (the original rationale for the merger)
There is no evidence of WP:LISTN. Most of the Marvel/DC drugs are relatively minor and non-notable.
All of the sources are unreliable or primary.
The article fails WP:INUNIVERSE.
Not all entries are fictional (e.g. U-235 pills; Red, White, and Blue placebo pills), and many are not even drugs (e.g. Bio-restorative formula, Burnt Sienna). LaundryPizza03 (talk) 01:21, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 03:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 04:00, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. I'll support a merge as the article is an unneeded content fork. We should also cut out a lot of the WP:OR as well. Ajf773 (talk) 09:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Listcruft with nothing to merge, as the sources are all primary, if there are any. The parent article is also primarily listcruft, save for a few ones with articles._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:10, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- Poorly sourced listcruft. There's no potential merge target, as no article would be improved by including any of this excessive cruft. Reyk _YO! 06:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Representation of drugs in comics is a valid topic worthy of coverage. It's quite strange that there aren't any articles on representation of drugs in art seeing how common a theme they are. SFB 23:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:49, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Killiondude (talk) 06:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 20:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Let this page stay. It is the page for every comic book drug as most of the redirects are listed here. If this page is deleted, the pages for some of those drugs are going to have to be recreated. --Rtkat3 (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If those articles redirect to here and this article ends up being deleted then the subject of those articles are probably not notable. Ajf773 (talk) 06:43, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - The vast majority of this list is pure WP:CRUFT. Very few of the entries here are sourced at all, and most of the ones that are, are just either using the comics themselves as the sources, or fansites, neither of which are reliable, secondary sources. I was going to suggest that very selective merge might be performed on the one or two entries here that look like they might have an actual reliable source, but I'm not positive there is a single entry here that meets that criteria. 64.183.45.226 (talk) 17:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.