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


 * 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. Although participation was not especially high in this debate, consensus seems to be that the topic is unsuitable for inclusion within Wikipedia. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

List of characters in the Superman film series

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This list is a back-fill construction made from full sections of the articles it points to. There is little or no attempt to summarize the information from those articles, it is just copied and pasted in place. The result here is an over long, inconsistent mish-mash of plot summary and character bios. It is also a bit disconcerting that there appears to be an intent to treat the 5 films as a whole only to segregate the more recent one, making the list start to look like a semi-random colection of items. J Greb (talk) 02:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.  —J Greb (talk) 02:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:48, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete This is another article just reshuffling the contents of "other media" sections into larger articles. The content should be on the relevant character's page and the characters linked from the specific film's articles and perhaps on the film series main page for recurring characters. This is just redundant replication of existing data. (Emperor (talk) 01:57, 2 March 2010 (UTC))
 * Also worth bearing in mind this AfD where a swathe of similar articles were deleted, so there is strong precedent for not having such articles. (Emperor (talk) 15:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC))

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 08:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Comment This level of detail would be more welcome over at the Superman Wiki. In that we have articles about most of the characters, there's no point in going in writing long descriptions about each entry.  In any case, this seems to operate on the premise that Superman did not appear on film until 1978-- it's basically "the Christopher Reeves films" and the more recent film with the new guy whose name that nobody remembers.   Mandsford (talk) 13:51, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree - it'd be worth organising a transwiki request for this. (Emperor (talk) 15:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC))


 * Keep appropriate summary article. Not being paper, a little duplication of this sort is useful. We could avoid it if we had a more sophisticated hypertext system to include sections where they belong, but at present this is a convenient way to do things.    DGG ( talk ) 05:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete The problem is that it's written as a summary of what's in articles elsewhere on Wikipedia. At 42K it's way too long to be considered a list.  Do we really need four paragraphs about "Gus Gorman" after a statement that says "Main article: Gus Gorman"?  And that's just for Gus Gorman.  (For everyone wondering who the hell is Gus Gorman, he was the character played by Richard Pryor in the 1983 film).  There's nothing "little" about this amount of duplication.  I don't need a sophisticated hypertext system to tell me where this belongs.  Take the hint, authors, go to the Superman wiki.  Mandsford (talk) 20:18, 14 March 2010 (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.