Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troll (Discworld)

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Troll (Discworld)

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Trolls exist in many fictional worlds, in very few of them they have stand-alone notability. I fail to see why Discoworld trolls get an article, it is a rather clear fail of WP:GNG/WP:NFICTION, and BEFORE does not show much to use as sources, only primary books and a bit of fancruft here and there. This is pure WP:PLOT summary. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and redirect Pure, unreferenced fancruft. The fictional race is not notable enough for its own article. Can be redirected to Discworld (world)#Sentient species._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 10:16, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, a mass of unreferenced in-universe material that fails GNG and WP:PLOT. A BEFORE search failed to find any usable sources. Devonian Wombat (talk) 12:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The one source listed is not even about this, but an off hand source about a tree one type of trolls is similar to. This article has existed for 16 years, and yet has no real sources. It is written way too much in universe, and lacks the real world contextualizing we would need for this article. This article belong on a fan wiki, not on Wikipedia. To be fair, in 2004 especially Wikipedia had been hijacked and turned into a fan Wiki. We have just in the last year begin to cut out some of these excessive fan coverage, right sizing our number of Silmarilian character biographies, cutting back a little on Narnia place articles, and cutting back on comic book superhere articles and D&D character articles, but we still have lots and lots of unneeded fancruft.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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