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The supposed main article is Chtulhu Mythos, but that's only a stub that barely scratches the surface. And there's considerable overlap between the Cthulhu Mythos deities and Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos articles. And then there's List of Cthulhu Mythos characters.
Apart from the cleanup tags on individual articles, and the poor sourcing to separate encyclopedic content from pure trivia, here are a number of additional notes that relates to the structure and organization of the entire set of articles (and therefore easily overlooked on any one page). I'm sure there are even more problem areas.
It's not clear at all which article contains the encyclopedic entry for each entity. It's taken for granted that "characters" mean humans, not deities (or "monsters" which we somehow call "
species" as if that was any clearer).
Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos appear to be written when Cthulhu Mythos deities was spread over several articles. It makes little sense to link repeatedly to what now is the same destination.
The "Great Ones" are simply enumerated, with a link to
Dreamlands, which then do not even mention them(!)
Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos#Other supernatural beings appears to be a garbage pile of leftovers that nobody could categorize - and no casual reader will ever find... (I wouldn't be surprised to find entries here that are already discussed elsewhere)
All in all, I'd say this is a godawful mess.
CapnZapp (
talk) 11:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)reply
CapnZapp, You are right. In fact, on Polish Wikipedia we have a brand new
pl:Mitologia Cthulhu, sourced to a (Polish) academic work, whichI think is better than what we have here. This still has too much fancrufty OR and too little academic analysis :(