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Article that has been around since at least 2006 when split from the main article was prodded with the rationale: "Completely unsourced trivia". It is partially internally sourced. I'm not taking a strong stand on whether it should stay but be cleaned up or deleted entirely, but I think it needs discussion. LadyofShalott 21:40, 12 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete as prodder, everything here is unsourced and useless trivia. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?) 01:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete as unnotable trivia. Somebody had way, way, way too much time on their hands and mostly decided to categorize every(?) character in the book as real or made up. This is about as useful for analysis as listing which pages start with "A" or "The".
Clarityfiend (
talk) 03:38, 13 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - fun fact, the same editor who added all this information in 2005, had at one point created separate articles for each chapter of the book. It looks like once they realized their attempts to turn Wikipedia into
CliffsNotes wasn't going to be welcome, they stopped editing the encyclopedia. — Warren. ‘ talk , 16:24, 13 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Yah, I reckon 2005 was kind of the tail end of Wikipedia's early years, when its purpose and scope was still not quite set in stone. Maybe back then a huge CliffsNotes analogue was still possible. But I'm glad we didn't go that way.
ReykYO! 17:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Listcruft. I'm sure that a similar list could be compiled for many novels; what is so special about Dorian Gray?
TheLongTone (
talk) 15:09, 15 January 2018 (UTC)reply
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