Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Characters in the Animal Crossing series


 * 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 of the debate was KEEP. TigerShark 21:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Characters in the Animal Crossing series
A list of very minor characters in the Animal Crossing series. This is very heavy on game-guide content ("You can do this, you can do that"), but if the game-guide content were removed, there wouldn't be anything but a list of character names and one- or two-line descriptions. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 23:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep - There's a lot you can write about the characters (especially since they talk a lot about their past in Wild World), the article just needs more work done. SNS 23:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * How is summarizing the stated backstory of characters in a wholly plotless game encyclopedic? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 23:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep the page, but edit it a little, and restore the free-standing K.K. Slider entry. Just my opinion. K.K. Slider was a nice entry. Why make it only a redirect?little otik 02:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability established. &mdash;Eternal Equinox | talk 16:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Er, my reasoning above doesn't say anything about notability. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 17:05, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Your reason does not have to concern notability, but I'd advise you to take a look at Notability (fiction). &mdash;Eternal Equinox | talk 23:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep - Agree with SNS, more work needs to be done, however, the characters, in the game, are hardly minor. ThatSandersKid 20:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. Likely a sock puppet. &mdash;Eternal Equinox | talk 23:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 20:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep. There is no POV or cruft in describing, say, Tom Nook's store, his personality, etc. I think it's silly to try and delete a list of characters - especially considering the series is massively popular. And to Shadoman, they are not notable enough of characters to warrant their own article. - A Link to the Past (talk) 01:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC) JadeGryphon (talk) 07:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I would like the nominator to expand upon his reasoning for the deletion of this article. So far you have highlighted some minor problems with the article that can be easily fixed, such as game guide content. But there is plenty of information on the characters that isn't "You can do this, you can do that". I so far fail to see how it meets criteria on WP:DEL. Hammer Raccoon 14:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's plot summary of a game that doesn't actually have a story. Wikipedia isn't the place to describe, in detail, the backstory of every single minor character, and most of these characters serve little other purpose than "Foo sells/gives away bar." - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire|past ops) 22:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:FICT seems to contradict your statement that Wikipedia isn't the place for this. However lacking in plot the game is, these characters are integral parts of it. There is enough non-game guide information for an article to themselves, yet too much information to fit into the main article. Strong Keep, Wikipedia guidelines support the inclusion of these types of articles. Hammer Raccoon 17:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Animal Crossing is a popular enough video game for its characters to have separate pages. This article should be about villagers, and the other characters should have separate pages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shadoman (talk • contribs) 18:39, 19 June 2006   (UTC)
 * Keep, reasonable article to have and far better than having individual articles for each character. Stifle (talk) 21:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, Don't delete, but rather expand on. It's a good solid list and as others have said, better than giving each character their own page, which would be even *more* wasteful of space because there's not much on all of the characters. It's better just to put them all on one page like that.


 * 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.