Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Digimon cast members


 * 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. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:16, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

List of Digimon cast members

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Disputed prod, but remover not opposed to relisting at AFD. Generally, cast member/voice actor lists are viewed as redundant to character lists and series articles, cannot provide anywhere near the same level of context, and tend to be indiscriminate lists. There is plenty of precedent for their deletion as well; several archived PRODs and AFDs of such lists can be found at WP:ANIME/DA. 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 18:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. — 「 ダイノ ガイ  千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 18:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 18:33, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Cast lists should be incorporated in the character list. This is standard practice across several types of media articles. I do why this particular list should remain while other such lists have long since been deleted. --Farix (Talk) 20:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't see the information currently anywhere else. List of Digimon and the other articles I looked over, don't have it.   D r e a m Focus  22:53, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * So are you saying "hold off until it is incorporated" or "do not delete"? Not clear. —Quasirandom (talk) 00:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Spot checking shows that the VAs are already incorporated into the individual character's articles. --Farix (Talk) 11:16, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It belongs in a list, not just individual articles.  D r e a m Focus  14:54, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It belongs wherever the characters are describe. And that is exactly where you will find them. --Farix (Talk) 01:27, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to appropriate character list, just so long as the information is ACTUALLY MERGED, not just summarily deleted. 159.182.1.4 (talk) 12:03, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * There is no character lists for it though.  D r e a m Focus  14:54, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If you mean other than List of characters in Digimon Frontier, List of characters in Digimon Adventure, List of characters in Digimon Tamers, List of characters in Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01, List of Digimon Data Squad characters, and List of characters in the Digimon World series, then I suppose you're right. I'm usually in agreement with you, Dream Focus, but lolwut? 159.182.1.4 (talk) 16:30, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I mean, there is no one list, for all of the characters in the entire series. I think its easier to see it all on one page, so if you wanted to know who worked a voice actor on any of their series, you could come here.  This list makes it easier to sort through.   D r e a m Focus  20:26, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Other then being part of the same franchise, the individual series are not related to one other. Each series has its own universe, with its own characters, and its own back story. So a comprehensive list is entirely silly and will have issues with WP:SIZE and WP:NOTDIR for being overly broad. We don't have a comprehensive List of Goosebumps characters for exactly the same reasons. --Farix (Talk) 01:37, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Such care really isn't necessary with this page - VA info is beyond trivial to find (simply pay attention to the credits at the end of an episode). 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 17:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to the various character lists, then redirect. -- Kraftlos  (Talk | Contrib) 19:58, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Redirect to where? There isn't a single target. --Farix (Talk) 02:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess redirect to whichever article the most content is merged to. -- Kraftlos  (Talk | Contrib) 18:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 20:11, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Cast lists for a series can be acceptable I would think if the series, or the cast members were notable enough. (Hence List of The Simpsons cast members). - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 1:15, 8 September 2009 (AT)
 * The Simpsons cast list is a featured list, with lots of content besides a simple recitation of who voiced whom. This type of information, however, is generally not available for anime series, meaning that a cast list for an anime series can probably never be much more than a list of parts and actors. 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 19:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * After ensuring that the voice actors are all mentioned in the relevant series article/list, delete. Material is better handled where the characters are discussed. I'd say redirect, but with a multimerge there's too many possible targets, so delete it has to be. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Comment My decision is going to be based on if the information included IN THIS ARTICLE is located in their right articles or not under cast. - Keeping this list if all the info is included elsewhere is redundent.Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:03, 11 September 2009 (AT)


 * Keep I dont see this information anywhere else.--Judo112 (talk) 13:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That's not an argument for keeping. -- Kraftlos  (Talk | Contrib) 18:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:DIRECTORY, looking it over the list, if someone really wants to include the minor characters they can in their right articles. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:49, 12 September 2009 (AT)


 * Delete Thought this one would be open and shut. Add cast information to character lists, delete this one, like always. Doceirias (talk) 20:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per Farix and Doceirias. Seems to be the logical thing to do. Doctorfluffy (wanna get fluffed?) 05:02, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, mostly per Farix; uit's an artificial clumping. I have not seen many articles onwiki that use this kind of info, and I believe a merge runs afoul of "not a directory". Martin Raybourne (talk) 18:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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