Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knights Templar and popular culture (2nd nomination)
I just think the article has the wrong approach here. Rather than simply listing everything that the Knights Templar have ever been mentioned in or vaguely referred to, the article could do well to provide, in some more prose, an analysis of the Knights Templar in popular culture, using examples of appearances where necessary. If the list is kept, it should be maintained so that the appearances are |notable, and |referenced to remove original research and: for instance, the StarCraft comparison to the Knights Templar is wholly unnecessary as there's nothing to directly link the development of the Templar caste in the game to the Knights Templar, other than the fact that the developer liked the name. Each entry should have the role of the Knights Templar elaborated on briefly to help show the notability of the Knights Templar within the work - entries like ''"National Treasure, 2004"'' and ''"The Da Vinci Code, bestselling 2003 novel by Dan Brown. This was also adapted into a film version in 2006"'' tell you nothing useful about the Templar in popular culture, whereas ''"The Revenge of the Shadow King, by Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis, relates an alternate history of the Knights Templar, aligning them with an age-old order whose primary role is to defend the world from the powers of darkness. In this book, the Templars still exist and operate today from the shadows of an underground organization."'' does. Keep it, but improve by ensuring verifability, adding further (sourced) analysis in prose and keeping examples to ones where the appearance of the Templar are notable
— User:S, 13:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTE||WP:V (Wikipedia:Notability)