Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
An indiscriminate collection and directory seeking to capture every time the turtles or a specific turtle is mentioned somewhere else ever. I would also strongly dispute the notion that this "solution" to the problem of garbage in main articles works well most of the time. Most of the time these trash can articles simply collect more and more garbage until they get deleted (or worse, kept on some combination of  and  argument), wasting everyone's time and effort a lot more than simply policing the main article would. This accumulate-split-delete-accumulate-split-delete cycle also does nothing to address the problem that this kind of trivial crap represents. If the presence of this sort of information lowers the quality of the main article in particular and Wikipedia in general, then article after article full of awful "cultural references to..." and "...in popular culture" itms also lowers the general quality of Wikipedia. Well-written articles on cultural representations can be done but keeping this sort of crap around as the dominant example of how such articles exist does not encourage editors to write actual good articles on the topic and contribute to the endless cycle of crap. No one seems to much like these sorts of articles but time after time instead of taking a stand against them people vote to keep them because actually addressing the problem they represent they deem too difficult. The "better solution" that already exists is to delete the articles as they come up and remove the crap from the articles before it accumulates to the point of inspiring a split
— User:Otto4711, 17:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ILIKEIT||WP:BHTT (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)