Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture (3rd nomination)
Recent edits, some after but many before this latest nomination, have been doing a good (if still incomplete) job of removing the tangential mentions, as reading/watching/playing a number of the works listed would soon make clear (OK, I realise that actually doing this would count as OR). About half the remaining redlinks seem to be typos, and almost all the rest simply need to have the links taken out. Having said that, the article genuinely needs more work than just removing remaining tangential mentions and redlinks, though this is a very useful preliminary to the work most needed. Firstly, the current references are rarely fully |reliable by Wikipedia standards - they might be OK for filling in the occasional fact, but an entire article should certainly not be depending on them. However, there are definitely better sources out there - in fact, I'm somewhat surprised that Lovecraft experts like S. T. Joshi aren't currently getting cited at all. Secondly, the article should not consist almost entirely of lists - a few paragraphs on the development of the influence of the Cthulhu Mythos on popular culture, for instance, could certainly be reliably sourced (though the sources might take some hunting down), and would make connections between a number of the legitimate entries on the lists far clearer. But the article needs improvement, not deletion
— User:PWilkinson, 21:00, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)