Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional actuaries
This fD reminds me quite a bit of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eco-terrorism in fiction, where the outcome was converting a list article that looked like Special:PermaLink/979987651|this into a prose article that looked like Special:PermaLink/991740265|this. Listing every time concept X appears in a work of fiction is something TV Tropes does; we should strive to write something ''about'' concept X in fiction, not just enumerate examples. This applies outside of fiction too, of course—it is the difference between writing the article Climate of London and creating the article list of rainy days in London. I don't know that the link {{noping|Andrew Davidson}} provided is all that helpful to us ({{tq|So here are five times actuaries have been portrayed on the big screen, blogs Charlotte Forsyth.}}), but there are other sources discussing actuaries in fiction as a group.https://www.actuarialcareers.co.uk/career-advice/actuaries-in-popular-culture/https://www.asquarepartners.com/best-of-fictional-actuaries/https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/library/newsletters/actuary-of-the-future/2010/may/afn-2010-iss28-skwire.pdf As a sidenote, I think that a few of the broken links in the reference list on the article are articles by Daniel Skwire, who has written several articles about specific instances of actuarial issues in fiction. I would be in favour of converting this list article to a prose article as was done with Eco-terrorism in fiction, although unlike in that case it we would obviously need to change the title as well here to not be called "list of
— User:TompaDompa, 00:28, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
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