Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of borderline fictional 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 of the debate was Delete. Deathphoenix ʕ 16:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

List of borderline fictional characters
This AfD is related to the similar Articles for deletion/List of real-life characters. In both cases, the articles are vague-defined and poorly-written, despite having been around for some time. I can't really decide where I think this information belongs, but I don't think it merits its own article -- and I certainly don't think it deserves this article, which is sparse, confusing, disjointed, and unmaintainable as written. Delete as unencyclopedic. Xoloz 01:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Borderline Keep better laid out, more purposeful and more accurate than the real-life character page, but getting awfully close to a deletion opinion. Needs rewriting. Jammo (SM247) 01:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep the useful information, but agree reorganization (or perhaps division into multiple pages) is needed. This is much better than List of real-life characters, which seems to me to be rather pointless.  The problem is that it is really multiple lists and I would argue that a list of legendary characters believed to be based on real people is very different than a list of literary alter egos.  Maybe they shouldn't even be on the same page.  But this list is potentially useful and more informative than a category would be. So I say "keep." Crypticfirefly 01:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - it's interesting enough, but I frankly can't see why anyone would want to look at it. Only 4 articles link to it, and the remainder are from other lists, and from AfD discussions and userpages. That may not be the fault of the article, but it still shows that it's not really, well, important. I wouldn't call it unencyclopedic, per nom, but it is sparse and needs some rewriting. TrianaC 02:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Better than the other one, but "borderline fictional" defines indiscriminate. ~ trialsanderrors 04:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are glimpses of interesting encyclopedic content, but I don't believe anything under this title is salvageable. That might suggests "rename", but there isn't any single common title the tidbits would fit under.  However, I can see a number of them fitting into a possibly encyclopedic List of fictional characters modeled on historical figures (if there isn't such a thing yet).  LotLE × talk  06:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per "borderline fictional" = indiscriminate. --Coredesat 07:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. What exactly is the point of this article? The subject is too vaguely defined, and the content drifts around all over the place. - Motor (talk) 08:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Motor. Paddles TC 09:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:NOT an indiscriminate list of information. Way too big, way too vague, way too subjective.  Proto ///  type  11:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, Motor, Proto; indiscriminate collection, &c. Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per reasons above, though would be unopposed to giving such a list a better name/criteria. Wickethewok 13:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete There is little content of value in here or Articles for deletion/List of real-life characters. doktorb | words 15:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT an indiscriminate list of information. -- MrDolomite 16:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination We99 23:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I see no problem here. This is a useful interesting page.  I just learned some stuff by reading it.  Tobyk777 00:20, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per MrDolomite. Accurizer 01:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this is not useful information. &mdash; Khoikhoi 03:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete vague and POV. --Musicpvm 21:22, 23 June 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.