Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional terrorists


 * 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  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 16:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

List of fictional terrorists

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This list does not seem at all encyclopedic and is perhaps inexorably linked to original research. When designating someone a terrorist is controversial in real life, how is it possible to make this determination for fictional characters without engaging in patent original research or point-of-view manipulation? I just don't see how this list can be made objective. Conceivably one could look for quotations by the creators of the characters that said character is a terrorist, but this seems to be a trivial matter unfit for Wikipedia. Nondistinguished 19:48, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Without secondary sources, I don't see how you separate out legit characters from original research POV. Was that character in the science fiction television series a terrorist or a guerilla fighter? You can't very well ask the characters in the fictional world. MarkBul 20:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Transfer all articles into a category. GlassCobra 22:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Since this is indeed inherently a subjective decision, the criteria for list inclusion is going to be, in the vast majority of cases, an unverifiable judgment call on the part of the editor. --Darkwind (talk) 23:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The list does not have a clear definition, because terrorist isn't a completely objective term. Some one has to make a judgment call, and it can't be Wikipedia. Don't create a category for the same reason. Jay32183 01:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 04:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per MarkBul. What is a "terrorist" in a video game and what is a rogue/assassin/villain? I don't believe there are any sources that say that the characters included in this list were created as "terrorists". A list like this is inherently subjective and POV, even when the list is about fictional characters.  Melsaran  (talk) 11:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I think a good article could be done if it were not primarily about characters in video games--there are sources in other areas. But the first step is to delete this before starting over., DGG' (talk) 19:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It's hard enough to define terrorists in the real world, as the [[List of terrorists deletion log attests. [[User:ConMan|Confusing Manifestation]] 23:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; given that the criterion for inclusion is eminently subjective (and, indeed, strictly political) the article could never be anything but an an indiscriminate list of personal opinion. &mdash; Coren (talk) 01:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


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