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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Nobody has made a clear case for merge-worthy information, or that this is a plausible search term for a redirect. Vanamonde (Talk) 06:41, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:LISTN. Also, List of fictional countries and List of fictional islands should have this covered already. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:04, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:04, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Islands-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 08:05, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to List of fictional islands. First of all, this is unencyclopedic fancruft from beginning to end, and the inclusion criteria are pretty unclear. To pick two examples of what I mean: 1) the Empire of the Isles from the Dishonored video games. That doesn't take place on Earth, and the rest of the list strongly implies it's for fictional islands in the real world. So which is it? 2) Atlantis. True, Atlantis probably never existed and it's likely Plato didn't intend for his account of it to be taken as historical, but plenty of people believe it was real and I don't think equating pseudohistory with fiction is a POV that Wikipedia really ought to take. Also, a lot of people say Atlantis was a continent and not an island. So.
This list is largely redundant to List of fictional islands. The only way this wouldn't be so is if there were a lot of stories involving fictional nations on real islands. I don't support a merge because this listicle is mostly unsourced and the obvious target is already full of unsourced fancruft such that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V'ing a lot more unsourced cruft would make it worse and not better. Reyk YO! 15:05, 18 August 2021 (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.