Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of dragons

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. There be dragons here. The list that exists now is significantly different from what it was when this AfD started, so it's hard to know how to interpret/weight the early comments.

It sounds like there's basic agreement that we should have some way of navigating dragon space, it's just not clear how the lists should be organized. That's basically a content dispute, which is better worked out on the talk pages. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of dragons

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Article is a duplicate of List of dragons. Even if it were made into an actual list of lists, there are simply not enough notable lists to merit the existence of one. (Technically the article was incorrectly moved here and List of dragons is the duplicate, but it makes more sense to nominate this one as the incorrect title.)_{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 10:21, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – This article's title suggests the existence of multiple lists of dragons, yet there is only one: List of dragons. There is no purpose to this second list. ~Mable (chat) 10:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I see no justification for the duplicate list, in policy or otherwise. Newimpartial (talk) 11:25, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete. Firstly it's not a list of lists, secondly it duplicates a topic which already exists (at List of dragons). Keep, I don't agree with completely rewriting an article during the AfD process, but now it actually resembles a list of lists so my vote has changed. List of dragons should be nominated for AfD instead (or redirected elsewhere). Ajf773 (talk) 17:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but reformat into an actual list of lists page. In addition to List of dragons, there's List of dragons in mythology and folklore, List of dragons in popular culture, List of dragons in film and television, List of dragons in games, List of dragons in literature. So just list these on this page, add a useful see also section, and we're good to go. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 22:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's more lists of dragons than I realized. I'd say that such a list would be fine to keep. In fact, I'll just change the content right now, if that's alright. ~Mable (chat) 15:50, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Just changed the article as suggested. That being said, you could definitely argue that these lists can all be listed in List of dragons as well, seeing as they are all sublists. Also, some of these (popular culture in particular) should probably get AfD'd as well. ~Mable (chat) 15:55, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It would make sense if List of dragons redirected there and they were all separate lists. But.. some of the lists are dubious._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 17:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: To everyone saying this article should still exist in its current form: Lists of fictional species already has a "dragon" section, so it's still superflous._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 19:48, 28 February 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.