Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stinking badges

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The result was redirect to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)#Production. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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No analysis/reception - just a description and list of usage, with mostly primary or passing references. Some movie quotes are notable, but with the current weak references and format, this fails to demonstrate WP:GNG (being included in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is not enough - WP:NOTINHERITED). ATD-R suggests redirecting to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) would work. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:08, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Film, and Popular culture. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:08, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film), as it doesn't appear that this page can rise above a TV Tropes-style trivia list. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 00:33, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: McFedries, P. (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins: Over 500 Strange Stories of the World’s Oddest Words and Phrases. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley Limited, indicates that the phrase has widely spread. The McFedries, P. (2008).The New Yale Book of QuotationsYale University Press, 2021 has an entry and chose it as Traven's best known and popularised quote. The phrasing is considered to "refer[] to the dual nature of the Latino identity within the United States." (Reyes, Luis I.. Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film. United States: Running Press, 2022. and plenty of other sources). And so on and so forth. In other words its cultural importance is analysed through various aspects in plenty of reliable sources. Its use on popular culture is only a testament to that. e.ux 09:09, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)#Production, where it is already discussed - A very famous movie reference for sure, but one that should be covered as part of the discussion of the actual movie it comes from. The list of trivia/examples should not remain, of course, and per WP:NOPAGE, the coverage of the line's development and impact would best be covered as part of the overall coverage of the film. While the section discussing the line in the main The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) can certainly be bolstered by the additional sources mentioned above, it does not look like this current article actually contains any non-example information that is not already there, so a merge does not look needed. Rorshacma (talk) 15:04, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per others. This is already covered at the main target article without much more to say. There is coverage, but it is not WP:SIGCOV that is separate from the article. In general, quotes are best covered as redirects rather than their own articles, except in the most rare of circumstances. Shooterwalker (talk) 17:06, 18 October 2025 (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.