Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Histeria! characters


 * 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 Keep.  Citi Cat   ♫ 18:15, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


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This is a list of non-notable characters from a TV show. They have no possible real world context (WP:FICT and WP:WAF), no possible sources beyond the series (WP:V, WP:N, and WP:RS), and can only have trivial details written about them (WP:NOT). They can easily be covered by a general paragraph in the main article. TTN 21:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd swing towards a merge of this article to Histeria!, but I'm a bit perplexed. The nom created the article from an apparent fork or merge of the individual characters, yet s/he's putting up for AFD.  Not protesting, I just think it is weird. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 23:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I created it just as a placeholder for the articles. I like to get them to a manageable state before doing anything else. There really isn't much to merge. Just a paragraph stating "These are the main characters. They interact...*blah, blah, blah" TTN 23:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 15:29, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep I'd rather have this than each character with its own page Corpx 17:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Histeria! or keep if it would make the article too long. WP:FICT says "Minor characters and minor treatments of such matters as places and concepts in a work of fiction are merged with short descriptions into a "List of characters." This list resides in the article relating to the work itself, unless it becomes long, in which case a separate article for the list is created.". This seems to be an explicit exception to the stand-alone list guideline which says that "Ideally each entry on the list should have a Wikipedia article"; which makes sense as WP:SAL seems to only apply to mere lists of links (with some annotation), not to heavily annotated lists such as these. As for real-world context, there was a promotion with Subway restaurants featuring toys of various characters, and reliable sources do exist (e.g. this syndicated column) for more information, in addition to web sources such as Encyclopedia Histeria!. DHowell 20:00, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely. If you ask me, I'll bet TTN just hates Histeria! and wants people to forget all about it. As the person who wrote the original articles (which I still say shouldn't have been taken down), these characters deserve to have information about them made available. -- Nintendo Maximus


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