Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Plotline of Neon Genesis Evangelion

And since when is NGE a highly influential multi-billion dollar anime?! It's not thaat influential and I highly doubt it's a multi-billion dollar anime... --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 17:50, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know how you can think it isn't influential, and I trust your assertion even less when I consider how I found multiple sources saying NGE has grossed, at a minimum, 1.2 billion dollars to 2 billion dollars (which sums actually lowball the total by quite a bit as they are old and will not include any of the new Gainax or ADV movies). I put a fair bit of work into finding references and citations for Neon Genesis Evangelion; you might find it educational. --Gwern (contribs) 22:53 1 July 2007 (GMT)
 * Gwern, please show me a source for this. From what I've been able to find NGE is certainly not a "multi-billion dollar anime series". I spend a lot of time on the anime articles, and researching anime series on my own as I used to run a site for anime. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 00:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Malevious, check the link in reference #5 here. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 01:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * In case you didn't know Yen are not equal to dollars. 4.5billion yen is not the same as 4.5billion dollars, from the converter i found, It's a little over 36million. No where near multi-billion.--Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 02:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm well aware that yen aren't worth as much as the US dollar; that was the first link I could find that gave any kind of monetary value to the franchise. Also, it's not 4.5 billion yen in sales, it's 4.5 billion yen worth of ticket purchases for the three NGE movies to date...according to the link, the total sales of NGE merchandise are over 100 billion yen, which (by my calculations as of a coupla minutes ago) is a little more than 800 million dollars.  Since the article only mentions yen, I don't know if it takes into account sales of Evangelion merchandise in the USA or not. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 12:43, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * What I was referring Malevious to was to read Neon Genesis Evangelion, where the very first citation, for the assertion that NGE was 'commercially successful' takes one to references which state that by one report, NGE has cumulatively sold >1.2 billion USD, and another states >2 billion USD (there are a few other references floating around the various articles to the effect that NGE made a metric ton of money). By which point I figured no one in their right mind would dispute NGE had sold billions (whether you figure it in yens or US dollars) and so stopped looking for references. --Gwern (contribs) 00:31 5 July 2007 (GMT)

Gwern, I've saved a copy of the page's text and code to a Word file; in the event that this article does end up getting deleted, I can shoot it to you via e-mail if you'd like. Do you think someone should go ahead and merge the text for the series' plot into the main article? Willbyr (talk | contribs) 22:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)