Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Alliance of Evil


 * 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.  Sandstein  08:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

United Alliance of Evil

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The entire premise of this article is original research, and if you cut out the original research, it duplicates List of Power Rangers villains. Problem is that the show never used the term "United Alliance of Evil" to refer to Dark Specter's alliance. It is entirely fan-made. The relevant passage confirms this when it says, "Its name, mentioned only in passing in the series Power Rangers: Zeo, has been adopted by fans as a description for the forces amassed by Dark Specter in the series Power Rangers in Space, though the name was not officially used in this context." This seems to prove that the premise is original research, and no reliable sources exist to confirm the use of the term "United Alliance of Evil" as describing Dark Specter's alliance - only a group that the Machine Empire once belonged to, and not the alliance being discussed here. Any connection between the two is fan fabrication. Thus it must go. SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:21, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 21:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 02:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Although I disagree with the premise of the nomination. It seems to me that it would be possible for a fan-generated grouping of characters to become notable, if secondary sources covered it. However, although I am not an expert on the show, it seems to me that the real topic of this article is a list of bad guys, not the organization the United Alliance of Evil. One article on the topic should be enough. Borock (talk) 03:05, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete lack of third-party sources to WP:verify notability. Shooterwalker (talk) 04:14, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, but reformat in a way that does not convey the apparent importance of the name. Some of the content here, which is a list of characters of whom some are not replicated on other pages on the project, is of some use. Just because the current title of the page "United Alliance of Evil" is not an official term utilized by the production company, that does not mean that the entirety of the page is original research (fictional character biographies can be sourced to the fiction of which they are a part of) and lacks sources. As I always say in these AFDs on these kinds of things, fictional characters from a children's TV series are not going to get the critical coverage that other fictional characters do, particularly when the subject is getting near 15 years old.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 17:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, there was absolutely no reason for SchuminWeb to have orphaned the article everywhere it was listed. Last I checked, that was not how AFDs were run.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 17:37, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Then reliably source the use of the title, used in the context of Dark Specter's alliance. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Doubly redundant, as the same information is conveyed in List of Power Rangers villains, and Power Rangers in Space. No need for a separate article where the name is only a fan name with no appearance in official show sources or reliable secondary sources.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Whatever. There are better things to do than to remove all links.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 18:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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