Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 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The result was withdrawn for now.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 06:28, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure characters

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The bulk of this article that I removed from the page is content that is redundant to the character lists included on the individual character pages, making it essentially a content fork. While several individual character articles exist and they are also in poor condition, they should not be merged with this one (as falsely cited by the person who removed my prod weeks ago), and instead merged with the article on the volumes they appear in. — Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 04:11, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. --Calathan (talk) 06:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Calathan has since reverted my removal of the redundant content. Note that the various sections are identical to the sections on Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency, Stardust Crusaders, Diamond Is Not Crash, Vento Aureo, and Stone Ocean, except the sections on the other articles are properly formatted. The article was never updated to include content from Steel Ball Run (which I recently added because it was absent from both pages regardless). There is no reason to have this content fork.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 06:16, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Keep - Character lists for notable fictional works are regularly kept at AFD, and I see no reason why this one should be an exception. Also, I think this should be kept per WP:LISTPURP as a navigational list to access information on all the characters. While a lot of the information in the article is currently redundant with information in other articles, I don't think that is any reason to delete the page. It makes sense to have one article where you can easily access information on all the characters in the series. To avoid redundancy, either this article can just link to the character sections in the other articles with character information, or the other articles could link to sections of this article. If the information is kept spread out in a bunch of articles, that seems like a very good reason to keep this list around as a navigational list, and certainly not a reason to delete it. Also, I think it was inappropriate to remove almost all the content from the article before starting the AFD, even if it was redundant with other articles. Nominating an article for deletion while simultaneously making it something very different from what it was before just doesn't seem like proper procedure to me. Calathan (talk) 06:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I was a bit hasty. I will self-close this and spend some time fixing the article up.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 06:28, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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