Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baraka (Mortal Kombat)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to List of Mortal Kombat characters. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 18:56, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Baraka (Mortal Kombat)

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This article has been like this since I was new. I tried to find reliable sources about him or what you call "third party sources", but unable to. GlatorNator (talk) 12:18, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Video games.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 13:29, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to List of Mortal Kombat characters due to lack of, you guessed it, viable third-party coverage. I was going to nominate this but you beat me to it. sixty nine   • whaddya want? •  06:12, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep - Meets WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV. I warned that this would be happening when the attempt on deleting Reptile's article failed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Reptile_(Mortal_Kombat). The intent may not to be WP:GAME, but that's basically what's happening here as the article was written over several years and many of the people involved are no longer on the site to try and defend it. Here's some extra sources, though I truly believe the goal is just to get these articles deleted: https://dashfight.com/mk11/characters/baraka-471, https://altarofgaming.com/character/baraka/, https://www.giantbomb.com/baraka/3005-64/, https://www.fanbyte.com/games/guides/baraka-guide-mortal-kombat-11-character-strengths-weaknesses-fatalities/, https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters/baraka.html, https://www.shacknews.com/article/109419/baraka-returns-for-mortal-kombat-11-character-roster and https://www.cbr.com/mortal-kombat-anatomy-baraka/. I'm also very interested to hear how the links I posted were unable to be found by GlatorNator in a Google Search, yet I could find them in seconds. Am I just that much better at Googling? KatoKungLee (talk) 18:00, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No, we are in full knowledge of such sources already. They are just inadmissible for Wikipedia due to being user generated or content-farms that do not prove notability. You can't just take literally any page from the internet and use it as evidence for an AfD discussion regardless of provenance. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:26, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ Have you gone through every single source I posted? Who is, "we"? You are not speaking as part of some group, but as an individual user, correct? KatoKungLee (talk) 18:37, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I am referring to the other Wikipedians who have already put their opinion about the AfDs in question without raising an objection. I am obviously one person, but I have been on Wikipedia long enough to consider myself part of the wider community. You are throwing around many highly charged allegations, like the fact that people are somehow out to get these articles in particular, and this is not just a routine cleanup. Please do not make accusations without any sort of evidence. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:43, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I understand how frustrating it is to watch something that you've worked on come down like this, but Wikipedia isn't the only place where this information can live. It clearly doesn't meet our notability standards at Wikipedia, but websites like Fandom exist (there's a page on Baraka here ) where this kind of content would be more appropriate. Nomader  ( talk ) 17:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect To List of Mortal Kombat characters. Lots of cruft, no SIGCOV.  // Timothy :: talk  10:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to List of Mortal Kombat characters. Non-notable, no SIGCOV. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:32, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to List of Mortal Kombat characters. The sources cited by GlatorNator above are all user-submitted stats and article pages that do not meet WP:VG/RS standards. This is almost a redirect !vote instead because most of this should just be cut. Nomader  ( talk ) 17:04, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to List of Mortal Kombat characters: So much cruft. lacks SIGCOV. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:18, 23 March 2023 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.