Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mega Man skills and attacks


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 08:08, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Mega Man skills and attacks
Alright, I know this one is going to be controversial due to the gaming subculture that is creating these articles all over the place who are going to come in defense on this article, but a debate really needs to be held about these kinds of articles before there are so many of them that it's impossible to get a consensus due to the sheer amount of them on Wikipedia (everyone citing "precedent"). "Nip it in the bud" so to speak. To put it simply, Wikipedia is not a video game guide. If I am mistaken, help me understand how this article does not violate this principle. For example: Ice slasher: "Fires a burst of freezing ice that immobilizes an enemy on contact, but does little damage." This is not encyclopedic. The fact that there are other similar articles does not ipso facto establish a precedent. It could just mean we have more deleting to do. That said and without further ado, debate away. Aplomado talk 18:51, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with above, let's set a precident about these "List of game items/skills/ect" here and now. --InShaneee 19:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: To clarify my above comments, I don't mean to generalize all gamers as putting this kind of stuff up there. The vast majority of them have created a lot of helpful articles without including a bunch of listcruft etc., so hats off to them. I'm a gamer myself so no offense. I'm generally referring to the gamers who turn Wikipedia into their own video game guide. Aplomado  talk 20:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as nominated. Brian G. Crawford 20:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom -- getcrunk   juice  contribs 20:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete, slept on it. Looking at this article, I recall only constructing it as a addition to List of Mega Man weapons for the sake of inclusion as there was some talk of readers ignorant of the source subject not knowing the difference between gained attacks and consistent weaponry. If not for that, i would not have created this in the first place. Now I'm not sure about the nominator's reasoning of a "game guide", as this doesn't devulge any data pertaining to such a thing (anyone searching about for that wouldn't find it here), and if it were such, a deletion would have been executed long before now. That said, a transwiki to the Mega Man wiki or wikibooks seems quite reasonable. -ZeroTalk 23:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: Zero is the creator of this article. Aplomado  talk 23:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed. As if my comment above of "I recall only constructing it" didn't already spell it out. -ZeroTalk 00:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * lol sorry dawg Aplomado  talk 01:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, but just let the moderator delete the page rather than blanking it before the discussion is over. Aplomado  talk 23:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki of the article is complete. Links ammended appropriately, and everythings fine. I did a cut and paste, and hadn't looked to see I blanked the page. Only took me a few minutes too.-ZeroTalk 00:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, si senior. Aplomado  talk 00:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete or Merge with Megaman (video game) Yet another list--Nick Y. 01:08, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are far too many articles here on video games already, and if this game derves an article, it deserves only one article. --BrownHairedGirl 08:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete gamecruft. Vizjim 16:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Can't speedy it, because there have been multiple editors. Stifle (talk) 20:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions.   -- ˑˑˑ 日 本 穣  Talk to Nihonjo  ε  23:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. ˑˑˑ 日 本 穣 Talk to Nihonjo  ε  23:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per nom. -- Caim 05:27, 11 May 2006 (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.