Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Magic: The Gathering characters: G


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The result was   delete. Non-notable/unsourced list (✉→BWilkins←✎) 09:47, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

List of Magic: The Gathering characters: G

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Unsourced list of in-universe characters. Criteria for the list appears to be being mentioned on a Magic: The Gathering card. Criteria for lists like this is supposed to be being mentioned in something not affiliated with MTG. p b  p  19:30, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Given that there's one of these for each letter of the alphabet, this really needs to be a multi-AFD for all 26 such articles, because that's really the only way to evaluate all these. Assuming that it would be a multi AFD, my first inclining would be a mass delete of them all; but I am aware that there are some common characters through the game's mythos and into the related media, that a single page of notable MTG characters would be appropriate. Thus I would support a merge of just the recurring ones to a single list, which would necessitate the deletion of these alphabet ones, or perhaps doing a massive history merge into a single list before stripping that down to the base characters as to keep whatever contributins were made on the alpha pages --M ASEM (t) 22:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, the really important characters have separate articles. I haven't really checked out how referenced they are  p  b  p  00:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I would tend toward merge, then userfy, then keep (as opposed to a nuke the full articles completely). I'd be willing to nuke all the trivial mentions from each of the articles to see where to start with the merging. That said, I would tend to agree that this does need a mass nomination (taking into account the message left on Masem's page). --Izno (talk) 02:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * PS: Template:MTG navbox seems to pick out the major characters of the story (the Planeswalkers plus a handful of others). Still, I would rather work from the direction of cutting out all the obviously minor characters and proceed from there. PPS: The individual expansions also look like AfD fodder. Could probably merge each of those into "block" articles. --Izno (talk) 02:29, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete these aren't characters so much as they're tiny plot elements from the game and fiction. It verges on a WP:GAMEGUIDE which is something that Wikipedia is not. Either way, there's nothing to establish this group of characters as notable according to WP:NLIST, let alone notable to have a list for literally every character sorted into 26 lengthy lists. That being said, if a merge emerges as a compromise, I'd support it, since this series has been around long enough that I'm sure at least some of the characters have something to be said about them in a good aggregate list. Shooterwalker (talk) 19:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - not characters in any meaningful sense; WP:NOTTRIVIA applies here.--Claritas § 02:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.