Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/List of creatures in the Resident Evil series (2nd nomination)

Content movement and resulting required attribution
Content regarding the fictional character Nemesis was moved among 3 articles, starting and ending with Nemesis (Resident Evil).
 * 1) Nemesis (Resident Evil)
 * 2) List of creatures in the Resident Evil series
 * 3) Characters in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis


 * On 6 July 2008, User:Randomran merged and redirected Nemesis (Resident Evil) to List of creatures in the Resident Evil series.
 * During the merge, the infobox, section headers, external links, and categories were removed, but the prose appears to be unchanged.
 * Despite a large number of edits (use Ctrl-F ===Nemesis===) to the overall list, only two sentences in Nemesis were changed. 129.82.85.246 removed one, and 172.168.3.203 added one. During this time, there were a total of 4 edits with the →Nemesis section edit summary: the two already noted and a self-reverted test edit.


 * On 25 November 2008, Randomran moved Nemesis section from List of creatures in the Resident Evil series to Characters in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
 * The prose appears to be unchanged during the move.
 * There were few edits during this time, resulting in only small changes, a trim by User:Mr T (Based).


 * On 14 December 2008, User:Kung Fu Man restored the Nemesis article.
 * The restoring edit added section headers and rearranged a sentence, but no new prose was added, compared to the July 2008 revision prior to the original merge.
 * Within the next few days, Kung Fu Man expanded the article. The sentence originally added to List of creatures in the Resident Evil series by 172.168.3.203 was copied, then expanded.

Considering the limited creative content in the single added sentence (Nemesis's placing in an EGM list), attribution may not be required. Moreover, it is trivial to credit 172.168.3.203 (and 129.82.85.246 if desired) in an edit summary using a dummy edit. Based on this analysis, I believe that attribution considerations are irrelevant to this deletion discussion. Flatscan (talk) 03:44, 1 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you; I though as much from what I had looked at. I've not had much time lately and am glad to see others on this. Sincerely, Jack Merridew 14:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)


 * After this AfD closes, I will attribute the content using dummy edits and remove the templates. Flatscan (talk) 04:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * For future reference, Tyrant (Resident Evil) was also originally a separate article. Flatscan (talk) 04:14, 4 November 2009 (UTC)