Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HAL 9000 in popular culture
this article is ''terrible''.  Not only is it totally unreferenced - which, in and of itself, is a reason for deletion per  - but it's not even an encyclopedic article.  I've brought this up again, and again - this is an encyclopedia |not a list of trivia.  If you are going to have an "in popular culture" article about a topic, it needs to about ''about the topic '''in popular culture''' '' - this means having sources.  This means discussing the impact of the character on the popular culture, ''with references'' and examples.  This does '''not''' means that we should take every single passing reference, throw away joke, mention, name that sounds like, random insertion and put it in an article.  This is an ''encyclopedia'' not a list of places where something occurs.  I mean, look at some of these: Kingdom of Loathing has a red eye item dropped by a robot creature?  A computer controlled player has the name HAL 9001?  A game mentions something being run by a computer called HAL 9000?  Are these ''really'' non-trivial references to HAL 9000?  If so, then why haven't we had the good sense to put them into an actual article, rather than an unsourced and ridiculous pile of trivia.  These articles are the worst part of Wikipedia, and we need to clean them up post-haste
— User:Haemo, NONE
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ATT||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Attribution)