Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Star Wars Battles (second nomination)


 * 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 nomination was delete. Mackensen (talk) 03:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Star Wars Battles (second nomination)

 * First AfD &mdash; admin declines to speedy delete under db-repost.
 * Delete. I believe that this "list" article merits deletion due to Wikipedia's policy that it is not an indiscriminate collection of information; specifically, that it is not for "lists or repositories of loosely associated topics."  The policy seems to indicate that if the list itself (not the entries comprising the list, but the actual list itself) is famous on its own standing, or contributed to the fame of the subject, it is acceptable to keep; I do not believe this list satisfies that corollary. &mdash; Mike (talk &bull; contribs) 17:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - This is not substantially similar to the the deleted article, which was an alphabetical list with no context and no format, so I declined to delete it under CSD G4. I don't feel the comments made in the last AFD apply to this article, additionally, but I'm ambivalent about this article's merits. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 17:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FICT. This level of detail belongs in Wookiepedia, the Star Wars wiki. Most of those "battles" only exist in marginally notable licensed material, not the actual films. --John Nagle 18:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Listcruft, triviacruft, fancruft. KillerChihuahua?!? 18:13, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Very, very strong delete. I don't want to encourage new users to create a battle article for every one of those red links. Lists like these aren't "cruft dams" as I say; rather, they are "cruft winds", for they blow the cruft into 100 directions. &mdash; Deckill e r 19:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Very true. We went through this recently with Lightsaber combat, which had generated an article for each "style" of lightsaber combat.  And then we went through it for minor characters mentioned in licensed comic books. (Articles for deletion/George R. Binks comes to mind.) We still have an individual article for each Star Wars comic book, but we've had editors trying to create an individual article for each story in each Star Wars comic book. Realistically, Wikipedia now has more than adequate coverage of Star Wars, and new additions are probably unnecessary, unless Lucas makes another movie.  --John Nagle 23:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Exactly. I tried to explain this to some of the people who want some of the other, more "meaty" lists deleted. I explained that they meet policy in their own way, and that, as an added bonus, they contain fancruft instead of spreading it out to many articles. &mdash; Deckill e r 23:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong delete. This is a recording: "Fancruft. We're not Wookieepedia." --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 20:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:CSD A huge list of articles nobody making lists has time to write. Ste4k 22:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete OMEN 23:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Wookieepedian 00:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ... PLEASE don't WP:BEANS anyone to create articles on every single year in the Star Wars universe. BigDT 00:47, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete per John Nagle and Deckiller. For minor battles, we have Wookieepedia. For significant battles, we have Category:Star Wars battles. BryanG(talk) 03:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Exactly; that category is being slowly reduced as battles are merged into resepective plot summaries, so that only the major battles with multiple sources, accounts, and appearences will be covered. &mdash; Deckill e r 03:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. This was copied from Wookieepedia. -LtNOWIS 07:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. Extreme Cruft. -- GWO
 * Weak Delete. I would hate to see a list so detailed be deleted, but there's too many redlinks, and it needs massive clean up. ILovePlankton 10:35, 3 July 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.