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The result of the move request was: moved as proposed. A case could be made for moving this to Krampus in North America instead, but the consensus is to expand the scope of this article beyond North America. If this expansion is not carried out, it may warrant another discussion moving it back. (non-admin closure) Bradv 13:28, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Krampus in North American popular culture → Krampus in popular culture – There's no need to limit this article's scope to North America, even if most pop-cultural expressions of him arise in North America (or if those are just the ones we're more familiar with). Krampus is probably more a part of the "regular" culture of Europe, but there's no reason he couldn't show up in European popular culture as well. If the point of this article is to suggest North America has somehow perverted Krampus, Krampus in North America, suggested in the above section, might be an option. If this article is not moved to my proposed title, that title should instead redirect to Krampus#In popular culture. It should not be red (cf. WP:INUSA). --BDD (talk) 15:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose I'd rather see this left where it is for North America, and then another created for Seidä Pass and similar groups in Europe. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:31, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  Why? Are you concerned that one or the other article would be too large (eventually)? Are there other popular culture topics that we split out into multiple articles based on geography? --BDD (talk) 15:35, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• There seem to be two totally different takes on "Krampus in popular culture", and they're geographically split. In North America, it's a slapstick horror character. In central Europe it's a serious recreation of old krampus practices. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:56, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Support and expand. Seems to be an arbitrary limitation on the scope.--Cúchullain ^t/c 22:11, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per Cúchullain. If there is enough to split into multiple continents, we can split it then. kennethaw88 • talk 23:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. No, User:BDD, perhaps it's just because I'm not north American, but north American Krampus is not at all what I'm most familiar with. I've been familiar with central European Krampus for over a decade, but it's been less than a month since I realized that north Americans too have fun with Krampus. (And of course I don't begrudge them Krampus in the slightest. On the contrary, good for them.) ¶ Question. "Krampus in popular culture" seems to presuppose that there's a significant amount of material on Krampus not in popular culture. What is this material? How is Krampus not in popular culture? (Meaning, of course, the popular culture of the relevant time and place, e.g. Bohemian popular culture of the early 20th century.) Because User:Bohemian Baltimore created "Category:Krampus in popular culture", I asked them about this (in Category talk:Krampus in popular culture). Actually I did so a week before this move was suggested, but haven't yet received a response. I realize that in Wikipedia articles, "... in popular culture" typically means "in recent or current commercialized culture" (which in turn usually originates from the US); but rightly or wrongly I put this down to mere recentism. ¶ If my suspicions are right and "Krampus in popular culture" just means "Krampus", then this article could be "Krampus in North America". -- Hoary (talk) 00:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  I appreciate the point that Krampus is portrayed differently in North American popular culture as opposed to his European roots. But it's essentially the same figure. You could say the same about Santa Claus himself. This is less a matter for segregated articles and more for prose, to explain regional variations in how the figure is regarded. As for your second question, I don't really see folklore and religion as part of popular culture. We're supposed to use common terminology, and I think these meanings will be evident to our readers. --BDD (talk) 14:27, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  Well BDD, I wouldn't call monasteries or theodicy parts of popular culture, and therefore I wouldn't call all of religion part of popular culture. And religion isn't irrelevant to Krampus. But as I read through the article "Krampus", I have trouble identifying anything in it that wasn't or isn't popular culture somewhere or other. ¶ According to a certain online encyclopedia, Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. (Grossly overlinked!) I notice that amazon.com sells lots of Krampus costumes, so maybe Krampus is in the mainstream of US culture; OTOH amazon.com sells lots of almost anything (recreational drugs aside), so perhaps not. Do millions of north Americans celebrate Krampus, or what else is our yardstick for "mainstream" there? As for especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century, systemic bias much? If I'm interested in bridges (as an example of something very different), I'm likely to be more interested in reading/writing about bridges that still exist and/or are near me; but a bridge halfway around the globe that was destroyed centuries ago was just as much a bridge as is one that I cross twice a day. Nobody should begrudge an emphasis on the former, but I'd be surprised to read: A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, especially those in accordance with Western-led civil engineering of the late 19th to mid 20th century and the emerging global civil engineering mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. -- Hoary (talk) 23:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Support The "real" Krampus, "Krampus in culture", is dealt with at Krampus. If editors want to expand the pop culture beyond North America, we should encourage. Wikipedia=Work in Progress Ribbet32 (talk) 23:53, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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