Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geryon (Dungeons & Dragons)


 * 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. RL0919 (talk) 14:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Geryon (Dungeons & Dragons)

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Non-notable topic TTN (talk) 10:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 10:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 10:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Smerge to List of named devils in Dungeons & Dragons or else Delete. While I'm fairly willing to go to bat for the deity list as being relevant (with religion in the game being a topic that has attracted out-of-universe attention), I'm ... less convinced that the obvious merge target here is one that's going to be around for the long term. Essentially, if consensus is that the target list is just going to be the next thing listed for deletion, there's little motivation to kick this can down the road. If there's some reason for optimism (I know that lists of characters in fictional settings don't have a well-defined notability demarcation at the moment), then it's appropriate to do a pared-down merge, redirect, and call it a day. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 14:31, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I've looked over the other articles in this topic space, and amended my opinion accordingly. I do think there's enough specific out-of-universe RS to argue that the D&D "devil" as a category is iconic and worth having an article for. But we have that article, at Devil (Dungeons & Dragons). It's a mess. But it's a repairable mess (I think). The List of named devils in Dungeons & Dragons is too much inside baseball to warrant a spinoff list. And redirects are cheap, but I don't think they're cheap enough to be necessary here. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:22, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Non-notable D&D version of a mythological figure. There are no reliable, secondary sources that discuss this particular version of the being in any way the shows notability.  I would recommend against merging to the List of named devils in Dungeons & Dragons, as that target has the exact same issues present in this article, only multiplied by 52.  Rorshacma (talk) 15:26, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Rorshacma.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 20:18, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fantasy-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 10:02, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. No demonstration of notability as established by coverage in reliable, independent and secondary sources, and would fail an WP:ONUS test regardless, due to blatant conflict with WP:WWIN: Wikipedia is not meant to mirror (or even summarize) D&D's own commercial manuals for the game.  And not for nothing, but the article (like most of the many hundreds of other articles that were created in the early 2000s in an attempt to replicate D&D's "Monster Manuals") flagrantly uses a copyrighted image from one of those commercial works, in clear violation of our WP:image use policy; there should be an additional effort to have said image deleted as well, though it may be worth waiting until after this discussion closes first, to simplify matters. Snow let's rap 19:32, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


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