Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dragon Ball special abilities (2nd nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETE. Krimpet (talk) 06:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Dragon Ball special abilities[edit]

This article is filled with flaws. First, it includes a number of attacks that have been seen only once and never again, like Jan-Ken. Thus, it is an indiscriminate collection of information. Second, the article lacks any real sources; the only sources listed at bottom are from fansites, which are not independent and therefore not useful (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability. The article also contains 45 non-free images, which seems a bit excessive to me, and also is written primarily in-universe. Based on the above reasons, I nominate this article for deletion. Hemlock Martinis 00:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I don't see how this article can be improved. And because some people like it isn't really a valid reason to keep it. --Hemlock Martinis 21:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions. -- Pax:Vobiscum 16:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete altogether unencyclopedic. Nyttend 15:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep. valid topic it the corresponding fancruft domain. Contrary to conclusion of colleague Hemlock Martinis, IMO the very fact that it lists rarely known "Jan-Ken" shows its usefulness for a certain category of people (I presume Dragon Ball fans is a quite sizable population). And most certainlyit is not "indiscriminate collection of information. It is a very specific (discriminate) list related to a prominent domain of wikipedia articles. Note: While myself I consider this topic is waste of time and disk space, I respect the opinion of many people who actually wasted their time on creating all DragonBallistic articles. Mukadderat 17:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

However, the amount of effort put into an article is rarely a good reason to keep said article. If DBZ fans like it so much, there's a DBZ wiki they can move it to, where they can give it the proper attention. --Hemlock Martinis 22:43, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete All but one of the abilities have no possibility of ever having any out of universe information (and that one only has a small possibility). These can only be described as how they appear in the series instead of how they were developed or have effected the real world. Fictional topics that cannot do that need to be merged or removed. TTN 17:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. "Useful to someone" and "I worked hard" are not valid criteria for inclusion. 81.104.175.145 04:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.