(originally the list by another editor--see page history). I need to bring this up to date.
Here is a list for reference of various "In Popular Culture" or "Cultural Reference" afds that resulted in a delete (or in some cases, merge/redirect). List will be tweaked/expanded as needed.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twin Peaks in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to Calvin and Hobbes
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Picture of Dorian Gray in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swastikas in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semtex in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piano wire in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheel of Fortune in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural depictions of Sammy Davis, Jr. (third nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Who in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aerosmith in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimi Hendrix in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nine Inch Nails in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aleister Crowley in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IKEA in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of appearances of C96 in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rush in popular culture 2
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cattle in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gun myths in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fictional portrayals of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Violin in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AC/DC in popular culture (3rd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of pop culture references to Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Idi Amin in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Depictions of God in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeopardy! in popular culture (3rd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ford Pinto in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scrabble references in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to masturbation
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to accountants
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orff's Carmina Burana in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of appearances of God in fiction
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of boots in media and popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicide attacks in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metatron in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonestown in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Godfather films in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amphetamine in popular culture (also includes Benzedrine and Dextroamphetamine)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to John Coltrane in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural depictions of Ella Fitzgerald
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lord of the Flies in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pterodactyls in popular culture (was merged later)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Big Crunch in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Air Force One in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) - allusions to other series
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garuda in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UH-60 Black Hawk in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Subterranean Monsters in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twinkies in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Honoré de Balzac in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iaido in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Darger in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Lee and popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Kerouac in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to the Rosenbergs
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walt Whitman in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to Oscar Wilde in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monoliths in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beelzebub in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mario in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to "All your base are belong to us" (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Middle-earth in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pimp My Ride in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silver Surfer in popular media
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MTV in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tin-foil hats in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular culture references to Deep Throat
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip K. Dick in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Satanism in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to the board game Risk in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural effects of The A-Team
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pac-Man in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to The Shining
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Where's Waldo in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Green Eggs and Ham in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Alien
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fight Club in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Popular cultural references for The Wizard of Oz
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chickens in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smilodon in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nighthawks in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dolchstosslegende in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boxing in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iron Cross in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heroin in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moai in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Methamphetamine in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Price Is Right in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Root beer in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references in Green Wing
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peanuts in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Music referencing Bill Hicks
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of references to Lost in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moby-Dick in popular culture (was changed to adaptations))
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kappa in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Museum in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midgard in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valkyries in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ride of the Valkyries in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leprechauns in popular culture (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walruses in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turtles and tortoises in popular culture (has since been restored, but ended on delete)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Istanbul in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Criminal Court in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yōkai in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Apocalypse Now
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Strangelove in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Psychedelics in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferris Bueller in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artemis in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amazons in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johannes Brahms in film and popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (DGG agreed with the deletion due to lack of content)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Four Seasons in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goldberg Variations in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Für Elise in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mozart's Requiem in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brave New World in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanuki in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oni in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balder in popular culture (also had 14 other deleted IPC articles)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grey goo in fiction
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sephirot in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Minotaur references in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cultural references (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hollywood Sign in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tengu in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rostam in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Icarus imagery in contemporary films and television
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naga in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troll in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to psychokinesis and telekinesis
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knights Templar and popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of popular culture references to the Four Symbols
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Lawrence College in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of kunoichi in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terminator in pop culture (also had Terminator 2 lumped in and deleted)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adagio for Strings in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pulp Fiction in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helicopters in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W. B. Yeats in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1812 Overture in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harpsichord in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saskatchewan in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gorgons in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Constellations in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Jung in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iceland in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gilgamesh in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Casey Jones in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Citizen Kane in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hydra in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of portrayals of and references to Bill Gates
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/U.S. Coast Guard in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Chinese dragons in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYU in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural References to Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moloch in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hermes in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marduk in popular culture (3rd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Bermuda Triangle in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wayland Smith in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milton Keynes in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stockholm syndrome in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beagle in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian martial arts in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Planets in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Batmobile in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astronomical names in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boléro in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seppuku in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jehovah's Witnesses in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to Soul Train in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/In the Hall of the Mountain King in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pathétique Sonata in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ludwig van Beethoven in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toupees in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spear of Destiny in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morse code in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The fortepiano in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dungeons & Dragons popular culture references (2nd nomination)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isis in modern culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to Son of Sam and/or David Berkowitz
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rayguns in fiction
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ludwig Van in pop culture (2 articles)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cultural references to Grand Central Terminal
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sun Wukong in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Los Angeles Police Department in media
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chevrolet Corvette in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecumenopolis in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chico in Popular Culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Citroën DS in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Garden of Earthly Delights in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Konami code references in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three section staff in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jet pack in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Hughes in Popular Culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to the Sengoku period
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portland, Oregon in popular culture (was renamed)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allentown, PA in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent State shootings in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Big Lebowski in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandrake plant in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of references to Xanadu in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asgard in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Necromancy in fiction and in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It's a Wonderful Life in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Chronicles of Narnia in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scythes in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behemoth in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antimatter in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/References to imps in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eurovision Song Contest in popular culture
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The three wise monkeys in popular culture (DGG argued for keep, Se 10, 2007)