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Keep Fictional literary city that existed in a set of notable books before adopted for in-game use. It has been adapted for other games, such as
RuneQuest. Covered in
Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. Cited as an inspiration for Ankh Morpork in early Discworld
[1],
[2]. Also found "Bryce, S. C. "Power Plays: Explorations of Social Power in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Adventures." Fritz Leiber: Critical Essays (2008): 149-168." in Scholar, but I can't see the article itself.
Parodying the Theater of Religion in the Fantasy of Fritz Leiber spends a couple of paragraphs describing the city, focusing on its fictional religions. So yeah, this isn't just another noplace D&D module, and you don't appear to have done any
WP:BEFORE work,
TTN.
Jclemens (
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17:35, 24 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Please show where it is being mentioned in a non-trivial manner in most of those links. You say it is "covered in Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction", but it is literally not even mentioned once. Them listing book titles containing the name is not coverage of the fictional city. The final one is good, but not on its own. It would be better to have a section on analysis in the main article if there currently isn't one anyway.
TTN (
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17:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Speedy keep, speedy close. Google Scholar, which the nominator never checks, show more than 100 hits for Lankhmar, including book-length studies of the author's works. Since the nominator has bothered to make even the most superficial efforts to assess notability, and since "does not currently establish notability" is not sufficient grounds for deletion, this discussion should be closed out of hand.
The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (
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15:57, 25 June 2017 (UTC)reply
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