Deletion of Stephen Hawking in popular culture

Comment: #IINFO|indiscriminate list and #DIR|directory loaded with |unreferenced pieces of |meaningless trivia. We do not need a list of every time Hawking has been mentioned in a movie, TV show or song. '''Strongly oppose''' any merger of this contentless content to Stephen Hawking. If it's crap on its own it would be crap in the main article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT||WP:RS||WP:TRIVIA)

Comment: That's the problem. How can you cite this information in a a way that's consistant with 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: We can source it. When Hawkins is reffered to explicitly it isn't OR and this is a good way of keeping -compliant trivia off of the main Hawkins page
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: or '''merge''' -- the nom writes "this entire page could easily be condensed into 2 paragraphs on the main page".  That's true, but yet it is ''not'' in the main Stephen Hawking article.  Seven of the sentences are sourced and should be merged to Stephen Hawking.  Thus, this is a case for  rather than deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Merging (WP:MERGE)

Comment: as most if not all of this article is unable to be |attributed through the use of reliable third party sources. Failing that, cite what you can (IMDB profiles, news articles, DVD commentaries) and '''merge''' that content and that content only back into the article. Watch as the section expands with "Character X ''obviously'' is based on Steven Hawking, although nobody ever mentions it" and "In Episode Y, ''A Brief History of Time'' appears in the background for 1/2 second", gets split out, and ends up back here
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT)

Comment: per .  There is a precedent for splitting off sections into subarticles that go into detail on various aspects of a topic.  Pop culture is always something (not me, so much but) lots of people are interested in.  These subarticles are a good way to manage this sort of information.  I suggest looking at Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc as an example of how this type of article can be done well
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Summary style (WP:SUMMARY)