Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in the Fantastic Four film series


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The result was   delete all. Jayjg (talk) 02:48, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

List of characters in the Fantastic Four film series

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The articles subject is not notable enough for an article. All of the characters listed in the article already have their own article for the comics version of the characters. The articles also include sections about the characters' film appearances and any changes to the characters the film created. Furthermore, only two of the three films the article covers are actually in a film series with the other being an unrelated (and unreleased) film. Marcus Brute (talk) 22:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because the following pages share the same problems of the above listed article:


 * Delete or maybe Merge. All of these franchises have articles on their characters (for example: List of Spider-Man supporting characters), so I don't see a point to making one specifically for their movie appearances. The only doubt comes because some of the TV shows for these franchises have similar lists.  TJ   Spyke   22:48, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete: Most characters already have their own articles, which it does not even redirect to. Plus, one should be able to aggregate all of these characters into a list using categories and should most likely be approached in such a way if such categories don't yet exist. DKqwerty (talk) 02:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Looking at it... the same editor that created these lists had previously created categories to collect the characters from the films. These categories were deleted prior to the creation of these lists. As for the list... The editor has mentioned, in relation to a similar list article, that they copy the material from the either the "In other media" section of the character articles or from IOM lists. Aside from that, the lists tend to make two or three bad logic jumps - treating disparate films as all part of one series, treating name drops as "the character appeared", and incorporating characters that "may" appear in yet to be made films or that actors have said they'd "like to play". The best way to handle this maybe to delete these right now - the IOM sections and character lists in the film articles may be the best way to handle this. - J Greb (talk) 03:47, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge - The problem with these big group nominations is that it makes it hard to suggest redirection or merges since they are such daunting tasks and almost no one will do them, leaving them in merger hell. But getting back on track the information in these articles all have an existing place to go to no need delete the information but also no need for separate lists/articles. --Sin Harvest (talk) 11:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.  —Emperor (talk) 00:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - as J Greb points out this is part of a wider pattern. This, like other examples, is the reshuffling of information that should already be in the character's "in other media" sections or articles, which is exactly the right place for this information (the relevant film article links through to the character one which explains their role in the film) and this is unnecessary and, like the other cases, presumably breaches guidelines like WP:SYNTH. (Emperor (talk) 00:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC))
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