Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Characters of Left 4 Dead


 * 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. j⚛e deckertalk 02:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Characters of Left 4 Dead

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Fails WP:GNG. Vaypertrail (talk) 17:28, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment (Actual vote cast lower down on page) Much of the content on this age appears to be copied from the Left 4 Dead wiki. The specific page can be found here . Just to be thorough, I ran this article and the Left 4 Dead Wiki article through the Duplication Detector. The results can be seen here, but it basically shows that much of the article is a word for word match of the Left 4 Dead article. There also seems to be extensive copying from "The Infected" page (specific sections copied shown here ) as well as the "NPCs" page  (with specific coping shown here ). The Left 4 Dead wiki does not receive any attribution in the reference area nor in the talk page. I haven't been able to find what specific licensing the Left 4 Dead wiki is under, but this article should be considered a massive copyright violation if the Left 4 Dead wiki is not under creative commons or another compatible license.  Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:31, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Most Wikias are cc-by-sa, and the L4D Wikia is the same (see the bottom footer), so no copyvio issues there. The copy/paste should be attributed somewhere, though., can you say more about why it fails the GNG, like what part or why? czar ♔  17:12, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, though while not (adding) a copyvio, there's extremely little of the content from Wikia that I would assume survive a proper rewrite to necessitate the need to keep that revision history. --M ASEM (t) 21:52, 26 May 2014 (UTC)  (clarified statement that not a copyvio --M ASEM  (t) 04:46, 27 May 2014 (UTC))
 * Wow, I did not notice that footer. Thanks for finding it. While the copyright issue is easily cleaned up (just add attribution in the talk page and reference everything), this article still has serious flaws. Specifically, most of the content is Left 4 Dead cruft. This level of detail is certainly appropriate when writing a wiki about the Left 4 Dead franchise, but not appropriate for Wikipeda. I can see the plausibility of having an article on Left 4 Dead characters, but this article as it stands needs massive clean-up. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 01:35, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


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 * Delete There might be a possible article for a list of L4D characters, but let's start the slate clean without "borrowing" content from Wikia. --M ASEM (t) 15:25, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete If the subject of this article does have substantial third party coverage, which I'm not sure is actually the case, it would still need to be built from scratch, using those sources. There's nothing to save here.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  21:21, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete The Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 articles both contain sections describing the survivors and the infected. These sections contain minimal cruft and do not copy directly from the Left 4 Dead wiki. I see no reason to keep this page. (Note: I commented above about potential copyright issues, but placed my vote here so it could be visible and to avoid causing confusing edits in my above comment). Spirit of Eagle (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2014 (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.