Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Babydramon

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Eugene van der Pijll 16:51, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Babydramon
A rumored character? Wikipedia is not GameFAQs. Al 13:04, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds like fancruft to me, but you might want to ask the WikiProject Pokémon Adoption Center what they think. No vote. --IByte 13:54, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Except Digimon != Pokémon. --Al 14:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; if it's not a hoax, then it's definitely not notable. 39 google results. No official pictures or cards. Jaxl | talk 15:52, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or add to mondegreen. Tonywalton 17:06, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. Andrew pmk 19:03, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I know it's not a hoax article, but this character is not notable yet (lacks data etc). Do not add to mondegreen. Punkmorten 21:24, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I made this page to get rid of a red link on the List_of_Digimon page. If you want I can make just one page for all the rumored Digimon. CanadaGirl 22:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a real Digimon, made official through the FAX Digimon contest in Japan. Several notable Digimon (like Cyber Dramon) have been such Digimon. There's no information on Babydramon other than his name, but if we're going to have Digimon entries, why not have all Digimon entries, even if they have to all be merged into List_of_Digimon? It feels incomplete and inconsistent to have only Digimon that are (somewhat arbitrarily) deemed notable. Every Pokémon has its own individual entry, however non-notable, and every, or nearly every Naruto character has at least a short biography on the Characters_of_Naruto page. If every ninja and Pokémon can have an entry or a section on a page, why can't every Digimon? Shining Celebi 00:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with Shining Celebi. -- Toksyuryel talk 01:35, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. 1. Babydramon is an official Digimon as cited by Shining_Celebi. 2. Whether or not this is fancruft is highly dependant on whether one is a fan of the series and as such by putting this entry on vote, you place all individual character entries of not just television series but movies as well on trial. Whatever should happen to this entry should be applied to other individual character pages as well. 3. Whether or not this entry is fancruft is irrevelant as the purpose of Wikipedia is to be and I quote: The Free Encyclopedia and as such should be an Encyclopedia as defined by http://www.dictionary.com, "A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.". The keyword is comprehensive and this entry indeed fulfills the job of an encyclopedia entry by contributing comprehensive information on the subject (Babydramon) and its parent (Digimon). 4. This article does not merit deletion according to the Wikipedia Vote For Deletion policy page. This is not a hoax, and if deemed to be so minor as to not merit its own entry, then should be merged with an appropriate entry. Takato 01:47:34, 2005-08-18 (UTC)
 * Merge or Expand. If it's real, adding the history Shining Celebi mentioned to the article would be useful (rather than just "he's rumored to exist since he was mentioned in passing in one episode").  -  Matthew0028 04:35, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Needs Improvement. I've done a lot of work creating articles for "rumored" characters, and to make such an article work, it needs to be longer than a few sentences and backed by reasons why this character was rumored to appear while never actually appearing.  For example, my articles on rumored Mortal Kombat characters Nimbus Terrafaux and Belokk contain real facts and reasons, rather than speculation.  I'm not a fan of Digimon, yet I'm not going to say anything about fancruft.  I just don't think the article itself is encyclopedically noteworthy unless it is expanded, merged, and/or improved. (Notorious4life 06:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC))
 * Keep real Digimon. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.