Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of animal characters in the 101 Dalmatians franchise


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The result was   Merge to List of Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series characters. &mdash;Sean Whitton / 20:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

List of animal characters in the 101 Dalmatians franchise

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Unnecessary and redundant list making claims of a 101 Dalmatian franchise that contains nothing but WP:PLOT summary and original research, including the claim that there is a franchise at all. Its redundant to the individual articles, which have character sections as they are actually called for, List of Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series characters, and the individual character articles. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 01:50, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions.   -- Ned Scott 06:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Merge As Collecto points out, it's been done, and it's been done more concisely in List of Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series characters. Feel free to contribute to that article, if there's something relevant to add. Mandsford (talk) 00:49, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Something else. Well, it *is* a franchise, there are a number of books, films, series, toys about it. However, I don't think it's redundant. I know neither books nor films nor series, but the Series characters seem to be different to the "franchise" characters. If anything, I think the list of series characters should be merged into this one. Note by the way that the links in the "series characters" list all redirect to the franchise article, or somewhere else completely. I'm unsure what to do, but deletion seems premature. --Amalthea (talk) 15:28, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The original books are not part of any Disney franchise. The films, series, etc may be considered a Disney franchise for it, I suppose, but not the original books. Both lists are a mess, though, and not sure either is really needed, but the series list is at least sort of in keeping with a television series article. Film articles generally don't have separate character lists, much less individual character articles. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I mentioned the books because they are part of Template:101 Dalmatians, which is supposedly about the 101 Dalmatians franchise, *not* specifically about the Disney 101 Dalmatians franchise — as is the article in discussion, right? It seems notable enough to warrant a character list, certainly notable along the lines of List of minor characters in the Matrix series (WP:ILIKEIT and WP:OTHERSTUFF alert). But, as I said, I don't really know anything about it, in my opinion some kind of merge is best here. --Amalthea (talk) 16:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The Series characters article is a good model for how much space should be devoted to describing a character; the franchise characters article is rather verbose about what's in the TV show, but includes characters from the (three?) films, as well as the book. A merger of the two articles would be ideal.  Based on Amalthea's argument, I'd vote for merge rather than delete. Mandsford (talk) 16:56, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.   —Esn (talk) 21:51, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series characters and reformat the list at The Series to state what book/movie the character was in, eliminating all that "original books are not the same as movie" arguement. TALKIN   PIE EATER   REVIEW ME  23:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series characters - no need to have both lists --T-rex 18:57, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


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