Deletion of Unsourced popular culture articles

Comment: and '''renominate''' individual articles: There is no firm Wikipedia guideline that  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Representations_of_people_in_popular_culture "in popular culture" category has been depreciated. Each article needs to have its own AfD and be argued on its own merits - not all of them are in violation of . This nomination is smacks pretty much of  - whats the hurry to delete them in a mass AfD?  - articles with sourcing problems can be addressed and fixed, only the articles that do not meet  should be deleted. In short, ''close, keep and renom only those that fail 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:IDONTLIKEIT||WP:NOTPAPER||WP:NOTE||WP:NOTE)

Comment: indiscriminate collections of information seeking to capture every reference to their subject or any reference that in the mind of some random editor reminds them of the subject. The arguments in favor of keeping these sorts of articles generally boil down to variations on  and earnest promises to clean up the articles, which rarely if ever happens
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:ILIKEIT)

Comment: as such articles can in fact become featured per Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc. Such articles are spun off from main articles to avoid excessive cruft in large articles, but are still valid. There is nothing wrong with Trivia sections as long as they are effective - Arrested Development (TV series) became a featured article with a Trivia section. This is just |"I don't like it" hack-and-slash
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: deletion based on lack of sources should be based on the inability to find |reliable sources after diligent effort or the impossiblity of finding such sources. Here, with effort nearly every claim in these articles probably could be sourced if someone took the time and expended the effort to do so
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)