Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of anime audio dramas


 * 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. --Ezeu 09:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

List of anime audio dramas
Contested prod. I did a mini clean-up of "dorama" articles a few months ago this is something that's left over. I'm not against including information on audio dramas on wikipedia, however, this is akin to making a list of all movies based on books or all anime based on manga. This just is the wrong way to go about it. --Kunzite 22:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Propose: Remove or Convert to category for the following reasons:
 * The list was created just for the sake of having such a list (it was split from another article, IIRC.)
 * The list is a violation of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * The list is unmaintainable.
 * The list has no content beyond links to other articles, so would be better implemented as a (self-maintaining) category.


 * Delete, pick any or all of the above reasons. Ashibaka tock 22:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:LC. Stifle (talk) 23:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete because. Danny Lilithborne 02:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly convert to category. -Sean Curtin 19:02, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and convert to category per Sean Curtin. -- ReyBrujo 21:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions.   -- ˑˑˑ 日 本 穣  Talk to Nihonjo  ε  16:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Convert to category per nom. I'll even do it. (^_^) ˑˑˑ 日 本 穣 Talk to Nihonjo  ε  16:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind making it a category, but.. Let's discuss first. There are manga-only titles that have audio dramas.  There are also a handfull of dramas and the like that are audio drama. Give it a neutral name and if someone wants a list of all anime audio dramas we can point them to category math. Also, the list is so puny.  There are possibly hundreds of titles not on the list. =)  There are a few other lists like this out there that could use similar converstion to categories.  I woudn't mind opening AWB up and doing some of the conversion too. --Kunzite 17:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Perhaps Category:Anime and manga audio dramas? ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjo e  19:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The problem with an "anime and manga" style category is that there are Audio Dramas made of new material to promote seiyu. There are seires of audio dramas that have no anime or manga or "light novel" basis (most of these are yaoi/hentai titles.) There are audio dramas based off of TV dramas. There are video game audio dramas for games that have no anime or manga.  There are even one or two titles released as audio dramas that have spawned anime and manga.
 * Secondly, After researching this a bit more, I have changed my mind. We have very very few (I can only think of one) articles are dedicated to audio drama for a specific series.  Anime and manga article rarely mention audio dramas (even in the Japanese WP.)
 * Audio dramas are basically a by-product of the seiyu industry in Japan. (Which is not present in the west.) They're also expensive to purhcase for most fans (around 3,000¥ per disc.) Also, spoken dialogue is harder to translate for most fans.  This leads to very very poor coverage in the west. (Sakura Taisen, for example, has released 23 radio drama CDs, not a single one mentioned in the article.)  So... I think that we should list the full articles based on audio dramas in Category:Radio drama and leave the rest alone until the (unlikely) day when the wiki attains have better coverage of audio dramas in modern Japanese society. --Kunzite 17:56, 14 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.