Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bibliography of Black Mask (comics)


 * 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 Delete -- JForget  00:19, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Bibliography of Black Mask (comics)

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Multiple reasons. Nearly a working definition of a random collection of information or listcruft, this page is simply a list when a supervillain has appeared in comic books. It has been tagged for lack of citations since September 2006 with extremely little editorial interest since. The publisher of this comic book character is capable of providing published bibliographies of its copyrighted characters if it wishes to, Wikipedia is not the place for primary source lists with no practical context.

There are other bibliographies similar to this one. Based on the outcome of this AfD I'll list several of them in a later group AfD nomination. Markeer 14:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as empty or copyvio copy paste from http://www.dcuguide.com/Bm/Tec.php.--Otterathome (talk) 15:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete copyvio. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 16:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't see the copyvio here. There's a list in the same format as the link provided, but quite a bit from the list isn't in the EL. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 01:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless citations from reliable sources are added to comply with the verifiability policy. Stifle (talk) 19:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 20:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This seems unnecessarily detailed and doesn't seem the kind of thing that should get to such a size that it requires its won entry (for such a middle-ranking character, especially). It might be worth transwiking this to the DC Comics wikia but all we really need to cover this are links to relevant databases. Comic Book DB, for instance pretty much has this covered and I notice that Black Mask (comics) is completely lacking in anything to even address WP:V I think it'd be better to focus on that and some database links would start to deal with that and head off the need for a lengthy list of issues. If you want to include published material then you could do something on the trade paperbacks that the stories have been collected in, for example. That'd be the way I'd approach it. If you want to mention specific issues then use footnotes to insert primary references to the specific part of the article being referred to. I think working those angles is a better way address the various issues and make Black Mask a more solid entry in the process. (Emperor (talk) 22:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC))


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