Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronald Reagan in fiction

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The result was merge to Cultural depictions of Ronald Reagan. Tone 18:30, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ronald Reagan in fiction[edit]

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This is currently mostly used as a stand-in for a Transformers franchise article. On the topic of Regan in fiction, it's extremely minor stuff that really doesn't deserve coverage. I'm not really aware of the current acceptance of "popular culture" articles, but this certainly seems too minor even for one of those. TTN (talk) 12:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 12:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is one of the rare cases where I agree with the nominator, this entire article is basically about Ronald Reagan's one-time appearance in the Transformers Marvel UK comic, which is fairly trivial. There have been what, 45 US presidents now? The only other one with an "in fiction" article is Barack Obama with Barack Obama in comics. JIP | Talk 14:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I could not find enough coverage on Reagan fictional appearances to justify this article. I do not believe it would be wise to merge this information with the main Reagan article as it could border on trivia. There seems to be far more coverage on the connections with Reagan and music than with fiction. Aside from the Obama example cited above, there is also Donald Trump in popular culture and Donald Trump in music, but those examples pass WP:GNG due to the coverage while this one does not (at least from what I can see after doing a web search). Aoba47 (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Admittedly it's not a great article, but, as someone who has worked on a lot of articles concerning U.S. presidents, I generally try to shunt stuff like this off to some kind of sub-page so that it doesn't clutter up the main article. Perhaps a better solution would be to move the content on this page to Cultural depictions of Ronald Reagan and try to expand that article instead. Orser67 (talk) 15:52, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That could be a good idea. I do understand and agree with your point about not putting information in the main article and having it in a sub-section instead. Hopefully, other editors will respond and discuss this as I do not think I am experienced enough as an editor to provide a concrete opinion, but thank you for the proposal. Aoba47 (talk) 04:37, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I absolutely agree! That seems like a much better idea. This can help keep main articles organized, while also allowing for detailed, high quality content. SuperChris (talk) 02:24, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Cultural depictions of Ronald Reagan and expand per Orser67. There are also some fictionalized portrayals of Reagan already mentioned there that could be expanded on. BD2412 T 05:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.