Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Characters of the Yakuza 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 was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Characters of the Yakuza series

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Article appears to miss the boat on both the WP:NOTPLOT and the WP:GNG dimensions. It is entirely a plot regurgitation with but three sources to its name. Efforts to redirect it have been unsuccessful. Izno (talk) 16:17, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete as WP:GAMECRUFT with no references to reliable, third-party published sources. Woodroar (talk) 16:33, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Is clear WP:GAMECRUFT and better suited for The Yakuza Wiki than Wikipedia.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 16:52, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - per WP:GNG and WP:NOTPLOT. The sole editor in favor of keeping it so far has been operating over invalid reasoning. Sergecross73   msg me  18:26, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - per above arguments and policies. I have no idea how anybody could argue this article belongs here in its current state. It's just a massive mess of fictional and non-notable information with basically no sources. ~ Dissident93  ( talk ) 18:36, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and create redirect to Yakuza (series) - there just doesn't seem to be enough RS coverage of the characters independently of the games to warrant a separate article.--IDVtalk 19:25, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * If there is significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources. (?), it should be first demonstrated by expanding Yakuza (series) appropriately and only splitting out when warranted by length or depth of coverage. In the absence of that evidence, TNT sounds appropriate. No objections to a merger or redirect, as the article was before it was recently reverted. czar  04:45, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, the editor who is pushing for his article is refusing to provide refs for the characters section currently so I'm not sure the whole "proving its notability at the parent article" route is being taken anytime soon. Sergecross73   msg me  13:29, 3 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Redirect per Czar's . Full protect page now or later if reversion back to a full article persists. If the topic (NOTE: "Characters of the Yakuza series", not "Yakuza series") can be demonstrated to meet GNG in the future then the current article and article history could be helpful. If not, then no harm done with a redirect. -Thibbs (talk) 13:19, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and perhaps early close this? It has a total of four references. It's clear that this is a trivial, in-universe list. It retells the plot from each character, without any substantial information that would merit its own article, like creation, development and reception. soetermans . ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 17:56, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:GAMECRUFT and all other above comments. Ajf773 (talk) 10:26, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


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