Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of voice actors (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. WP:SNOW. postdlf (talk) 13:57, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

List of voice actors
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This is just way to broad of a list. There are hundreds, if not thousands of voice actors out there. This list is not even complete, and even now, it is too long to navigate. We already have categories for voice actors that can be used. If someone was to go through the effort to divide the article into separate articles for each nationality (ex: List of American voice actors, List of British voice actor, etc) then I will withdraw my nomination, but that is not easy to do. JDDJS (talk) 15:23, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep but strip out all names that don't have articles here. As long as it is limited to those that are known primarily as voice actors, and not including people that did a voice over once, it is a very reasonable list. A similar list where we police the names fairly tight is List of festivals in the United States.  List just needs mild pruning. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  15:33, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep and nuke anyone who you can't find a reliable source citing their voice acting (not just their article, it may be unsourced or not cite that). Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  15:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Side note: we got to where when people listed a reliable source, we would create a stub. Most people will add a primary link, not understanding the difference. So yes, I agree in theory. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  16:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep The nomination seems to be proposing a split rather than deletion proper. Note also that this list is a subset of List of actors and so forms part of an enormous tree of lists.  Andrew (talk) 19:13, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No, I'm proposing a deletion, but I am willing to settle for a split. Including every voice actor in the world, even if it's just the notable ones, into one article is too much. JDDJS (talk) 20:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * They you would discuss and properly fork it, you would never delete it. "This article has too much accurate and sourced information" is a poor excuse to delete.  Holding a deletion threat over editors if they don't instantly fork it, well, is rather unseemly.  AFD is the wrong place to discuss forking it, the article talk page is.  Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  20:36, 24 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep - Per WP:NOTDUP, this list article is complementary to (the subcategories of) Category:Voice actors. Per WP:SIZESPLIT it's a good candidate for splitting, since the article is at around 195 kilobytes, but lack of such being performed is not a valid deletion rationale. List inclusion criteria, potential splits, etc. can be further discussed on the article's talk page. NorthAmerica1000 22:17, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Gonna play devil's advocate here and point out that Category:Voice actors is a Container category. On the Keep side of the argument, there is so little English-language coverage of voice actors that requiring big-time sources will keep the list smaller. Anarchangel (talk) 01:15, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Slightly modified my !vote above (in parentheses). NorthAmerica1000 02:08, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep per above - As noted above the redlinks need to go. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  22:40, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep - I first thought WP:SNOW, but this does meet the speedy reasons. Yes, the red needs to go. VMS Mosaic (talk) 04:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm not the biggest fan of WP:NOTDUP, but this is a pretty obvious keep.  I agree that most of these issues should be addressed on the article's talk page.  There are legitimate issues that need to be resolved, but AfD is not the place to do it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:08, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
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