Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 08:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

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Character in a trading card game, which just asserts her existence and fails to demonstrate her notability. Most of this article, in fact, isn't actually about her at all, but is merely a WP:COATRACK for a tangential summary of LGBT representation in gaming in general — it actually says almost as much about Super Mario Bros. 2 as it does about the game that the topic named in the title is actually in. Beyond the introductory statement of her existence, any other content which is actually about Alesha herself consists entirely of blogsourced opinion commentary rather than reliably sourced fact or encyclopedic context. It might be possible to write a real article about her as an encyclopedia topic in her own right — I find that very unlikely, but I'm not enough of an expert in this particular branch of nerd culture to rule it out entirely — but this, as written and sourced, is not that article. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 08:02, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - agree that it seems a bit COATRACK; a better route would be to have an article specifically devoted to LGBT in gaming. —Мандичка^YO 😜 08:17, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. She does get an article in the Guardian, but that's just a one-time blip. Clarityfiend, Who Grins at Article Deletions (talk) 10:43, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I definitely agree witht eh WP:COATRACK bit. You'd be hard-pressed to create a full article based on this one character, much less one people would actually need to look at. PureRED (talk) 12:02, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:26, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not even anything worth merging about the subject character/card; actual content about the character is trivial. Could be a few bits that could go into a list article for "transgender characters in gaming" or somesuch, but this isn't that article. - Sangrolu (talk) 13:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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