Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of creators of billion-dollar animated movie franchises


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 16:47, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

List of creators of billion-dollar animated movie franchises

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List uses a set of completely arbitrary criteria: "the original creators of source material for animated movie franchises that have each generated over $1 billion from all revenues after only 1 sequel." Whether Wikipedia needs a list of creators of major movie franchises is debatable, but why only animation? Why $1 billion as the cutoff, and why the limitation of "after only 1 sequel?" BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:32, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete - This is a completely arbitrary selection of criteria that has no basis in any reliable sources that discuss the concept. The references being used in the article are each about the individual franchises, none of which appear to actually be from reliable sources, that have been WP:SYNTHed together to make this hodgepodge list.  As there are no reliable sources that discuss the concept of "creators of source material for animated movie franchises that have each generated over $1 billion from all revenues after only 1 sequel" as a set, it fails WP:LISTN completely.  Rorshacma (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Rorshacma. In addition, several of the cited sources don't even establish that the specific individuals mentioned created the franchise, and most of them don't establish that these franchises generated $1 billion or more in revenue. Furthermore, if the point is to rank these franchises by revenue, splitting the list into groups based on whether one person or more than one person created the franchise doesn't help readers. We can see from this article that Shrek outgrossed other franchises created by one person, and Toy Story outgrossed other franchises created by more than one person, but not how Shrek and Toy Story compare to each other. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:25, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Total WP:OR. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 19:47, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Had a look into this earlier, I agree it should be deleted as list cruft. Shashank5988 (talk) 11:48, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


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