Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fantasy comics


 * 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 keep. Consensus is to develop rather than WP:TNT. postdlf (talk) 12:40, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

List of fantasy comics

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This list has too broad of a scope to maintain. With very many (perhaps most?) comics containing fantasy elements, this list can't ever be even half complete, and neither is it helpful to readers because "fantasy" encompasses so very much. A category and a list of lists would be more useful at this level of generality, complemented by a series of more narrowly scoped lists (see the subgenres at Fantasy). Until somebody writes this, however, the current content can be safely deleted, since it's basically a random and indiscriminate selection of a few notable comics, and is of no use to any further development as described above.  Sandstein  19:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Musa  Talk  23:31, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 09:39, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Keep - We have an article on Fantasy comics, a list is an appropriate branch of that article. If the list should be pared down, then pare it down. Chunky Rice (talk) 18:39, 25 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kharkiv07  ( T ) 15:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:07, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:31, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per Chunky Rice. A tighting up of terms would be appreciated on both this article and the fantasy comics one though. Artw (talk) 02:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: This one was a difficult choice. This sub-topic is very undeveloped in Wikipedia, but I share Sandstein's concerns of maintenance issues. Existence of the list (or sub-categories) could be useful for interested editors, but the category serves the very same generic purpose at this moment. If Fantasy comics eventually gets bloated with notable comics, we can split them. Ceosad (talk) 04:21, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep:It is not unusual for lists to carry a disclaimer that they can never be complete. Also, books that contain fantasy only in passing do not belong in this list. Added disclaimer and clarification on page. Thisisnotatest (talk) 01:48, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep:Not sure this should be in this list though. What they stated above I agree with. itsmeemario (talk) 07:16, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 15:23, 16 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. Lists are useful. They are often hard to maintain, incomplete and inconsistent, yet we've made a practice of keeping scads of them. In particular WP:OUTCOMES mentions that "Lists and categories have different uses, and lists nominated for deletion just because they have overlapping categories are kept."Jacona (talk) 16:29, 16 December 2015 (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.