Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Static supporting 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 delete. Geschichte (talk) 09:01, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

List of Static supporting characters

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FANDOM-level fancruft without a single reference, making it WP:ALLPLOT and WP:OR. Only lists a bunch of minor supporting characters. Therefore, fails WP:LISTN. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 04:37, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 04:37, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 14:49, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete does indeed appear to fail WP:LISTN. -- The SandDoctor Talk 06:30, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Unnecessary content split that fails to properly summarize content per WP:WAF and WP:NOTPLOT. The main article can handle whatever little context these characters need, if any. There is no reason to retain this content. TTN (talk) 14:35, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 17:27, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  23:01, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

* Keep - Will retract when the nomination cites a proper rationale.
 * Delete - I completely agree with ALLPLOT, OR and LISTN being used here. There is nothing of value worth keeping from this article and it isn't fit for being in an encyclopaedia. A fandom Wiki, sure, but not here. Spiderone  23:03, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * - Two fallacies here. Fiction is one of the many topics covered on Wikipedia (and that includes lists of supporting fictional characters) provided that there is adequate coverage. Perhaps coverage does not exist, but I'm not seeing that argued or substantiated anywhere in this post. Believe it or not, "fancruft" is not a magical word that can waved around to achieve deletion, you have to actually substantiate that (the essay itself says as much). Second, the issue here seems to be unsourced content, not original research. Third, it should be noted that ALLPLOT on its own is not a criteria for deletion.
 * - That's not even remotely how WP:LISTN works. Article or list content does not determine notability. Likewise, saying "it fails LISTN because the characters are minor" gives off the appearance of WP:IDONTKNOWIT.
 * Overall, the nomination does not cite a criteria for deletion (at least, correctly), nor does it seem as though the OP did anything to determine if the subject of the article truly fails LISTN. There really isn't anything here other than declarations of subjective importance with some page issues (no sourcing, mostly plot) that don't amount to deletion on their own.  Dark knight  2149  02:46, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Vote retracted: After source check by below.  Dark  knight  2149  23:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


 * delete- Excessive fancruft with very poor sourcing. There is no sourced content to merge anywhere and any potential merge targets are already overflowing with cruft themselves and would not be improved by incorporating any more of it. Reyk YO! 20:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * So no valid rationale for deletion is cited here, and all of the "delete" votes (except for one) essentially boil down to "Well, it's just fancruft" and "the quality of sourcing is bad". Well, I guess that's another couple for the pile.  Dark knight  2149  23:14, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Character lists can be reasonable spinouts of articles on a piece of fiction, but those lists and the information in them still need to actually be supported by reliable, secondary sources in order to pass the basic requirements of verifiability and notability. And this article has no sources, nor have any been proposed so far in this AFD.  Searching for sources myself turns up nothing covering his supporting cast as a whole.  And, aside from Static himself, I'm not finding much in reliable sources that talk about any of the individual characters here either, outside of some minor plot summaries.    It should also be noted that the majority of the information in this article is actually on the characters from the Static Shock TV series, which already has its own (though honestly, equally problematic) list here.  Rorshacma (talk) 23:26, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


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