Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in anime and manga who can fly


 * 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. Jayjg (talk) 02:25, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

List of characters in anime and manga who can fly

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List is overly broad in scope with no value and lacks context. Fails WP:SALAT. —Farix (t &#124; c) 12:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 12:43, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. I fail to see why we need lists like this. It has no substantial content. Specs112 (Talk!) 13:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) Delete per consensus above.--Boeing7107isdelicious 14:24, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete If this stays, we should make a list for List of soap opera characters who have had romantic relationships. Angryapathy (talk) 14:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: I believe that this is a list and so should be deleted, if at all, under WP:MFD. -- allen四names 17:24, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Per WP:LIST lists are article entries, and due to this it is standard convention to list them AfD instead of MfD.  Them From  Space  22:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:LIST is what you should be looking at. It list what types of list are acceptable.  "An Index of articles page presents an alphabetical list of articles related to the subject of the index."  It meets those requirements. This is an aid to navigation, it listing blue links, helping people find something relevant in other articles.   D r e a m Focus  17:36, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Doesn't give any indication of why it is relevant, clever & encyclopedic to have a such list. Having the sole merit to be informative isn't enough. People can write List of characters in anime and manga who can't swim or List of characters in anime and manga who crossdress or List of characters in anime and manga without nose using the same argument. Last point i feel very dubious that people will look intuitively for a such list. I doubt that people would use either "anime character fly" or "manga character fly" in wikipedia search box as key words. --KrebMarkt 18:13, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:40, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is original research; the article's author watched some anime, read some manga and made a list of those characters who could fly, which is indiscriminate since there was no secondary sources used to confirm that all flying characters were found. Since the author combined two different media, the list is extra-indiscriminate. Glittering Pillars (talk) 21:23, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Utterly useless. Doceirias (talk) 22:20, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete since it really does not deserve to be a stand-alone page, I just copied and pasted it to List of fictional characters who can fly (with some modifications). The information can be found there. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 02:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I only have three words for that: Frying pan, Fire. —Farix (t &#124; c) 15:07, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per above comments. Extremepro (talk) 11:56, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect as Lord Sesshomaru has already started the merge and so should be allowed to complete it. -- allen四names 19:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Copying and pasting takes only a few seconds. Is the information best suited there, or in an article by itself?  Would it make the other article grow too long?  Do all the things listed meet the requirements for this other list, being able to fly on their own, without being part bird or a species that does it already, or using any magical or technological items?  A merge discussion can be had elsewhere though.  This meets all requirements for a List article, so it should be kept.  Most of those against it simply don't like it, which is not a valid reason to delete something.   D r e a m Focus  21:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Too broad of a topic per WP:SALAT which produces an indiscriminate list without any notable connection between the entities. I would also support a deletion of the even more indiscriminate list of which this was merged.  Them From  Space  22:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A closing administrator may decline to delete this list because of attribution concerns. -- allen四names 22:45, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep and discuss whether the already carried out should be supported--it does make sense to me. But there is no policy reason to delete: A list with material limited to that in articles on notable Wikipedia  subjects is not indiscriminate, but discriminating, according to WP:N. If the works involved have articles and the characters are non-trivial, that's sufficient to be discriminating. indiscriminate ≠ minor. Since the relevant information is the role in a fiction, the fiction itself is the preferred source. Myself, I couldn't care less about the subject.  It is in any case correct that unless we are to merge histories, which is an immense amount of trouble,  the page will need to be kept as a redirect.   DGG ( talk ) 04:04, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * "Delete" wikipedia is not an anime repository. This is just a list of character that adds nothing to the encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theodore Therone (talk • contribs) 13:05, 6 December 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.