Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in Batman: The Brave and the Bold


 * 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   no consensus. Views about equally split, with no policy coming through one way or another. Enough debate has taken place so no need to relist at this time. Nja 247 10:37, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

List of characters in Batman: The Brave and the Bold

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Fancruft directory of characters that appear in the cartoon series, primarily reliant on summary of episode plot. There's nothing to establish that these appearances or character variations are notable in of themselves, and its only out-of-universe content (naming the actors who voice the characters) is in a way redundant to the purpose of the far more concise Cast list in the main article. WesleyDodds (talk) 10:06, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — Cliff smith  talk  17:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: Let the page stay. Characters exclusive to this show should be listed here. Rtkat3 (talk) 9:32, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This does not address the issues of notability, unnecessary plot summary, or lack of out-of-fiction context. WesleyDodds (talk) 03:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, nominator nailed it. Mintrick (talk) 17:55, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but possibly merge with other articles on characters in the general franchise. "Fancruft" merely = IDONTLIEKIT, the plot is a suitable source for straight description & in fact the best source,  the individual items of content in a list need not be (indeed, if they were, they'd deserve separate articles), and the need for out-of- universe content refers only to the Wikipedia discussion of the work as a whole. Some parts of that discussion will be in-universe; other not, and so we have a balanced set of articles.  DGG (talk) 01:41, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The plot alone is not suitable; you need secondary third-party sources to establish real-world context and notability. Simply describing the characters and what they do (which this article does) does not merit an article. WesleyDodds (talk) 02:13, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Perfectly acceptable spinout article to keep the main article from growing too long. Edward321 (talk) 05:21, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not acceptable because it's non-notable in-universe information. WesleyDodds (talk) 07:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as massively inappropriate depth of coverage of a trivial subject. Per Wesley. Cheers, Jack Merridew 06:13, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The character list is perfectly valid.  D r e a m Focus  09:06, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * How so? WesleyDodds (talk) 07:17, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong with it, so no reason to try to destroy it. There are character list just like it all over the place.  If the work of fiction is notable, then you can have a list of its characters.  And while some of these thousands of list sometimes get challenged, I don't recall any of them ever getting deleted.   D r e a m Focus  23:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * mebbe he means this (which currently says [invalid]). This list is a huge heap of WP:NOT. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:43, 8 August 2009 (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.