Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of series featured in Super Robot Wars


 * 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   merge to Super Robot Wars. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 10:14, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

List of series featured in Super Robot Wars

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I'm nominating this list for deletion because I feel it violates WP:PLOT. Wikipedia is not a place for indiscriminate plot information and appearances. I was looking originally to see if I could improve this list, but essentially it's just an un-referenced list of cameos in a video game series. Nomader ( Talk ) 21:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions.   Nomader  ( Talk ) 22:01, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  Nomader  ( Talk ) 22:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:31, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The list got seperated from the series's article because it's very long. I'm neutral on matter to delete or keep it. But if it's going to be deleted, it's better to merge the list back to main article. L-Zwei (talk) 04:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I was thinking about a merge, but I feel a random list of appearances by various anime shows really shouldn't be in Wikipedia at all-- it feels like something that could just be mentioned in the main series article or in separate game articles if at all, and even then it seems somewhat fancrufty. The list is extremely complicated to navigate for those who have no understandings about what the shows are; maybe someone could go in and try to fix it up so it's understandable to those not familiar with the series? Either way, the AfD should hopefully be successful in driving discussion about it. Nomader  ( Talk ) 05:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Alternately, maybe it can be merge to games list, possibly by list all series feature in each game with debut serie's names in bold text. But I think that will make the infobox...messy. L-Zwei (talk) 12:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm!. To the best of my knowledge, the main attraction, in large part the point, of Super Robot Wars is the way it smashes numerous works together. Often wildly incompatible ones. This is therefore an important part of our coverage of the series, and we should not consider the matter closed until we have worked out a good way to cover it. I have seen about ninety too many AfDs where the "victors" stomped away without even bothering to de-link the redlinks they'd created - that did not improve the encyclopedia, it killed a Wikiproject. Attemntion must be paid to a satisfactory conclusion. Enough ranting. A merge or deeming this a valid spinout and keeping it where it stands seem good to me. --Kiz o r  21:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I understand where you're coming from... but I'm not sure if we should have all in a centralized list. Could we put it in each game article, or have the information in the notes of the main list of games instead? Nomader  ( Talk ) 03:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:21, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. As has been pointed out, the whole crossover thing is the signature of SRW. However, if it absolutely must, it could be merged back into its original article. The core of the list is about 4 screens on my computer; if it were put into a tabular format with 2 or 3 columns, I expect it would go down to around 1 screen, which would be perfectly reasonable. On the other hand, this would also be reasonable for turning into categories - a supercategory for SRW, and then each game gets a category and all the respective series get tagged with 'Category:Included in SRW 3' or whatever. --Gwern (contribs) 16:01 4 February 2011 (GMT)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Keep as per Gwern. Edward321 (talk) 02:38, 13 February 2011 (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.