Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World War XVII


 * 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. NW ( Talk ) 23:41, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

World War XVII

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Article posted for AFD by an IP user who did not complete step two. It appears to be a ministub about a manga - particularly a war that happens in the cannon of the related story. However, I see problems with this running very much afoul of WP:FICTION.  Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 07:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * IP editor did follow the instructions and included a deletion rationale on the article talk page. "PROD removed by creator with no improvement to article. Fictional event with no indication of real-world notability." 98.248.33.198 (talk) 08:09, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * See your talk page. -- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 15:30, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable. See also The Quest for the Sybian andy (talk) 10:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This isn't independently notable outside of the Manga series that I haven't heard of either. I really hate it when anyone tries to focus an article on a fictional term that would be confused with something that does belong in an encyclopedia.  An encyclopedia that has scholarly articles about "World War I" and "World War II" and even the hasn't-happened-and-we-work-to-avoid-it "World War III" looks bad when it includes a bullshit article entitled "World War 17". Mandsford (talk) 14:10, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete given that we don't seem to have an article about the manga MAGCannon this storyline comes from. If we did, this content could be merged into that article. (With regard to Mandsford's concerns, if MAGCannon's World War XVII story were notable, we could title this article World War XVII (MAGCannon story) or something like that to show that we recognized it was fiction. But since it doesn't seem to be notable, that won't be necessary.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I think the main article about a fictional work/universe/series ought to be significant enough to have solid development before sub-articles are started about events in that universe. In this case, the manga series apparently isn't notable enough to have its own main article. And I second user Metropolitan on the issue of naming. --JamesAM (talk) 16:53, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 20:40, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't even find any online references to the parent topic (the MAGCannon series): searching for (excluding DA because a user by that name generates a lot of false hits) turns up nothing at all. While this doesn't prove that it doesn't exist, it's a strong hint in that direction. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 20:44, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Possible hoax or from someone's dōjinshi. A Google search isn't even coming up with anything about the alleged manga, MAGCannon, other than being someone's internet handle. —Farix (t &#124; c) 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nom. Does not appear Notable. - Knowledgekid87 21:45, 4 October 2009 (AT)
 * Delete Buckshot06(prof) 07:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. It's no surprise to me that the editor who created the page has only edited this and the affiliated pages. Dandy Sephy (talk) 16:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to be self-promotion for a non-existant work.  clearly not notable. Edward321 (talk) 13:52, 9 October 2009 (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.