Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HK-47

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The result was speedy keep‎. Per WP:SPEEDYKEEP#1. The nominator has withdrawn the nomination and there are no new delete rationale in the deletion discussion. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

HK-47

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Supporting video game character that fails GNG. Reception is a big list of listicles ("Empire listed HK-47 as the 43rd greatest video game character" etc.), and two niche awards. Game Developers Choice Awards is notable but this character just won the small "Original Game Character of the Year" category that was awarded for just for years, and the other award, Computer Gaming World's 2003 "NPC of the Year" , is apparently so niche it is not even mentioned in CGWs' article. And both awards are sourced to primary sources, indicating that this character receiving said awards wasn't noticed outside press releases. There's no analysis nor information why this character won said awards (the source for the first award doesn't contain that informatin, the second press release just states the editors found him memorable, and even mispells his name as HK-41). The best WP:ATD-R I can think of would be to redirect (perhaps merge a bit) to that character's article in the game they appeared in. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, and Video games. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
• Keep meets WP:GNG. It's been picked up in academic and other books
  1. Two solid pages of SIGCOV here (published by Rowman and Littlefield) [1]
  2. Few paragraphs here (Taylor and Francis) [2]
  3. There's also coverage in a Boss Fight Books work that has interviews with developers, but is a secondary source: [3]

—siroχo 03:55, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

• Keep Per WP:NEXIST. Besides the aforementioned sources, there is also a GamesRadar+ piece, a PCGamesN piece and a Vice piece on the droid. He is a very notable character by video game standards. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:00, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
• Keep Per above. A cursory look through Internet Archive shows several print sources discussing the character.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 10:44, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
• Withdraw. Fair enough, my BEFORE this time did not do so well. If the article is not improved, closer, please tag it with {{sources exist}} or ping me so that I do it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:23, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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