Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deimon Devil Bats


 * 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. I intend to take a rather extreme approach to this merger, probably nothing more than a abbreviated version of the lead. If there is anything else of encyclopedic value, which at a glance I doubt, it can be pulled from the page history for additional merging. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Upon taking a closer look it seems this topic is already covered at the target article in about the same level of detail as the lead, so I am just going to redirect it. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:36, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It appears I acted a it hastily and missed some nuance here. I have re-merged the character bios in abbreviated form and also chopped many of the other character bios at the target article. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:47, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Deimon Devil Bats

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A vast article, in enormous detail, about a fictional football team who are part of an obscure manga. No out-world notability, no sourcing. There is one reference here for the whole article, and that's just the fictional text, not even fan-world commentary. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep or Merge to List of Eyeshield 21 characters. The description of the manga as "obscure" is clearly false, as Eyeshield 21 ran for years in Weekly Shonen Jump, which is probably the most prominent manga magazine, and was adapted into a television show that ran for over 100 episodes.  It clearly appears to be a notable franchise (the main Eyeshield 21 article has plenty of references). This seems to be a section of List of Eyeshield 21 characters, which I'm guessing was split due to the length of the article.  Having a character list for a notable franchise seems clearly appropriate, and since this portion of the list contains the main characters, it should be kept in some form.  It looks like the article could be trimmed down and improved, and perhaps it should be merged with the main character list if they wouldn't be too long together. Calathan (talk) 18:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Eyeshield 21 characters. Seems this list was created to keep the crufty "Techniques and strategies" sections along with other trivial details of each player that were removed from the original list. If the characters have been removed from the original list, of course merge them back. —Farix (t &#124; c) 12:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge encyclopedic content to List of Eyeshield 21 characters. Whatever is encyclopedic should be at the character page, while the fancruft has to go. We don't want Eyeshield 21 to have a fumble, do we? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge per Naruto. A news search reveals a reasonable amount of coverage in gaming sources that I would consider reliable for the purposes of this article, but I think it's all ultimately trivial mentions. There's not one article I can find that treats the subject with any depth. Hence I think it fails the WP:GNG requirements but could see anything verifiable being used in the list article. --Batard0 (talk) 12:47, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


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