Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-Statix


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 07:03, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

X-Statix

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Fictional character(s) / group that fails WP:NFICTION. There is proposed merge but no rationale, and as usual the content is PLOT+list of appearances. At best, soft delete and redirect. Thoughts? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:09, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  05:09, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions.  GentlemanGhost   (séance)  06:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep per sources found to meet the WP:GNG, or at worst merge to X-Force per the proposed merge on the page. BOZ (talk) 05:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. After having taken a closer look at what sources are available, I'm changing this to a straight-up "Keep" recommendation. -- GentlemanGhost  (séance)  17:12, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe with the secondary sources which have been added to the article, it now meets WP:GNG and there is still potential to add more. -- GentlemanGhost  (séance)  21:19, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

"*[Merge] to X-Statix? I'm on the fence on this one. She did star in her own book (and might meet the good 's criteria), and I was going to say that the article should be kept and shifted to focus more on the work than the character, but after searching, all 10 reviews here are coming from Comics Bulletin, so maybe she wasn't that notable to generate interest.  I searched for X-Statix material, and she gets some passing mentions from The AV Club, Paste, and Newsarama, but this is all good material for X-Statix, not Dead Girl.  She got some brief mentions of how her artwork was handled in a recent book here  and here, but I can't really say any of this is material that can't be adequately covered in the greater X-Statix page.  -2pou (talk) 22:46, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. I never heard of X-Statix before today, but from my search regarding the Dead Girl AfD, I'm convinced that they meet any notability tests out there.  If a real Merge discussion with X-Force were actually started, I would "Strongly Oppose" it.  I was on the fence with Dead Girl standing alone, but the greater team/comic is most definitely notable. , you may not have seen my findings there, as they are recent and still did not lead to a keep !vote, but I will quote the posts here:
 * Turns out IGN did a couple reviews of Issue #1 and Issue #2, but those didn't have numerical values, hence their absence from the roundup. Still, with their brevity, I lean towards saying it can be covered by X-Statix. -2pou (talk) 07:33, 11 December 2019 (UTC)"


 * And though I don't really follow WP:THREE... at all really, if I did, I would pick the first three above as the strongest: AV Club, Paste, and Newsarama. And I found those three searching for a single character from the team.  Broadening the criteria to eliminate the need for a Dead Girl reference, and a plethora of sources can be found, especially with the recent Giant-Size X-Statix release.  This generated a bunch of articles about the cult following the book originally had, and a number of reviews of the new book.  There is also another book on the way next year.  Although the X-Statix "run" overlapped with X-Force to start, separating the run into simply X-Statix aligning with the Milligan/Allred creative team is much cleaner than confusingly referring to X-Force/X-Statix combined, and the author states in the already reference The Guardian piece (primary source in this case), he "mutated" the X-Force book into X-Statix, which is more commonly associated with the parody and satire of superheroes and celebrity/fame.  The traditional X-Force term is more commonly reserved for the special-ops type team. I don't want to do a reference dump, but I can provide more if requested. Yes, the article does not properly reference any of this material, but it can be improved since the sources do WP:NEXIST. -2pou (talk) 09:06, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - the series titled X-Statix has received significant coverage from both comics press and mass media:       These are from a quick search and barely scratches the surface of what's available, particularly from print editions of Wizard, Comic Buyer's Guide, and Comics Journal. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep Appears notable, and definitely doesn't seem compatible with X-Force, though the lede should be changed to make the article primarily about the series and not the superhero team. The series is really what's notable here, not the team itself.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 18:36, 14 December 2019 (UTC)


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