Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forodwaith

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. Whether or not to create a redirect is a separate decision and up to editors. Sandstein 23:06, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Forodwaith

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This is a minor land which plays very little part in Tolkien's fiction. The main source for this article is two pages in Appendix A of Lord of the Rings. It doesn't seem to be featured prominently in any secondary sources, unsurprisingly. Jack Upland (talk) 06:13, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:25, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I cannot find any discussion of this topic that is not a summary of its role in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 01:18, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Tolkiencruft. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fantasy-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 11:52, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge into Realms of Arda. As usual, deletion of information which can be merged elsewhere benefits nobody. The reason the list does not already include much detail is that all these were created as separate articles. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:01, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Preservation serves no purpose. Wikipedia is not meant to extract all extractable information there is. Wikipedia is not meant to be a directory of everything. We need to show notability to justify an article and absolutely no notability is shown here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:49, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Middle-earth#Geography. The difference between Wikipedia and a fan wiki is that Wikipedia is to give the broad, overarching concepts and and cultural impact of a fictional world, and the fan wiki is there to supply the lesser detail. Forodwaith isn't one of the impactful concepts, and a brief description is all it needs here. Hog Farm (talk) 19:46, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Middle-earth#Geography. Goustien (talk) 07:25, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question: why are we redirecting so many articles to Middle-earth#Geography? It's not informative. Why not just delete?--Jack Upland (talk) 10:40, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I have no idea why we would redirect there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:02, 22 December 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.