Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of magical girls


 * 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 redirect to List of magical girl works.  Sandstein  07:12, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

List of magical girls

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Indiscriminate list with original research and no sources. lullabying (talk) 03:34, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per above. Maybe merge some applicable information to help with List of magical girl works. Link20XX (talk) 04:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as an indiscriminate, mostly unsourced list of near-zero utility. ƒirefly  ( t · c ) 11:37, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 16:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment Category:Magical girl exist and lists are always more useful than categories. The genre of Magical girl is quite well defined.  Unfortunately all the blue links seem to lead to the series they are in, not a page for the individual girls.  For the list to be valid, it needs to link to enough character articles.    D r e a m Focus  16:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of magical girl works - As Dream Focus said, most of the blue links here are just links to various series, not to individual, notable characters. This makes this a rather redundant WP:FORK for that already existing list.  Thus, redirecting this to the actual sourced list of Magical Girl works would be the best solution for now.  Rorshacma (talk) 17:29, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment - I actually just noticed that the List of magical girl works was just recently created by this AFD's nominator, likely as a response to this list, so this article being a WP:FORK as I said above is not actually accurate. But, it still makes more sense for the list of notable series to take precedent over this list of largely not-independently-notable individual characters, so my suggestion for the Redirect still stands.  Rorshacma (talk) 17:35, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I've actually been planning to make that article for a long time in response to my work on magical girl, which I've been editing in these past two months. lullabying (talk) 17:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 09:47, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. Can anyone tell me why List of magical girl works is superior? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:08, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Largely because outside of a few examples, such as the Sailor Moon characters, none of these characters actually have their own articles - the links here just lead to the articles on the series they come or for the the character lists for said series. Thus, it really just serves the same function as the List of magical girl works, just in an increasingly overly long fashion.  Rorshacma (talk) 15:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to List of magical girl works, or delete. Rorshacma sums it up quite nicely: This is redundant to the point of being indiscriminate. Information about individual MG characters should be listed in the articles or character lists for those works. –LaundryPizza<b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 15:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:INDISCRIMINATE and would be misleading if it was actually redirected.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 21:35, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Magical girl. There isn't much of a list and these become subjective and hard to verify. It is better to cover examples in an article where this can be described better. Archrogue (talk) 18:53, 28 February 2021 (UTC)


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