Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Notable anime movies listed by year


 * 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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Notable anime movies listed by year

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Another list article that replicates categories. Similar to afds for List of anime, List of animes, and Chronological list of anime. A list of anime films and OVAs which is incomplete and redundant. This article adds nothing more to what these categories: Category:Anime films, Category:Anime OVAs and Category:Anime by date of first release already do. The title also suggests notability which I do not see referenced at all in the article. All information that is contained in this article exists already in both the categories and in the articles themselves. I do not believe a third alternative way of listing the same information is required. Squilibob 10:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per. nom. M e eples ( talk )( email ) 10:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and similar AfDs from the past. -- Ned Scott 10:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. And what constitutes notable anyway? MER-C 12:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions.   -- Gorxnvg 13:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Nearly Headless Nick 14:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  T ennis  Dy N ami T e  (sign here) 15:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete- Per reasons stated by nominator-- SU IT  19:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Tonytypoon 20:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons self-evident. Danny Lilithborne 22:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Might want to get Notable anime TV series listed by year too. 69.120.246.213 01:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reasons given by nominator. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment There are a couple reason why deleting this list is not a good idea.
 * 1.) It is already well maintained, if not by me, it is by a host of others.
 * 2.) The page can have Japanese names attached, something no Category page can do. See Chinese animation listed by year for example.
 * 3.) The reason why this list exist is because the original "list of animes" got too huge to maintain. Why are we going backwards?
 * 4.) From animenewsnetwork if you extract the anime list to raw text, it comes out to a 4MB file. No one would ever go to wikipedia article that is 4MB of raw text.
 * 5.) This page does not include Hentai. The same go for both movie and TV series page. Benjwong 04:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Doesn't include hentai? Now you've lost me. -- Ned Scott 04:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A joke a joke, but seriously, even if the vast majority of hentai is... well... crap as far as plot goes, to exclude it simply because it's hentai is pretty much censorship. -- Ned Scott 04:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - reply.
 * 1.) 49 edits to the page since 5 June. That is just over 8 edits a month. Well maintained?
 * 2.) It can have Japanese names attached, but it doesn't. It also can have references attached but doesn't. How about we evaluate the article on what it does have?
 * 3.) We're not going backwards by deleting redundant information. There are several categories that do the same job that this list does.
 * 4.) I think I see your point on this one and wikipedia has several advantages over ANN, but remember the categories vs list argument as well.
 * 5.) As per what Ned Scott said, wikipedia is not censored
 * --Squilibob 15:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. -- 9muses 16:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lists are not redundant with categories. (But rename: "notable" is redundant.) AndyJones 19:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. The goal was never to duplicate the "list of anime".  The category pages already do that.  Whether it is ranked by year or alphabetical, it doesn't matter.  What matters is that this list highlights a few animes out of the thousands for convenience.  So the bottomline question is..... why is that bad?  Benjwong 23:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. To User:Benjwong: there are inherent POV issues in "highlighting" certain movies unless there are set criteria for inclusion. Why are they being highlighted? Is it a subjective judgment about their quality? WP:N is one thing, but the criteria used here seem to be inherently subjective. Dekimasu 08:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Arbitrary list with no objective and verifiable criteria of what defines "notable anime". --TheFarix (Talk) 18:11, 1 January 2007 (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.