Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Over the Hedge characters

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 no consensus. Mango juice^talk 19:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Over the Hedge characters

This article is a repetition of plot elements from Over the Hedge (film) and Over the Hedge, and it is also completely unsourced, and the existing Over the Hedge (film) article covers most of this content in it's current state. Also listing the following related character articles:

-- Nick Penguin_(contribs) 23:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all, composed mostly of original research, unverifiable information, and fancruft. All of the verifiable info is already duplicated in the existing OtH articles, so deleting this will be no big loss. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:05, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into the film article - the information is verifiable by watching the movie and reading its credits. That is, the movie is the source. The Transhumanist 02:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep list, ~~merge and~~ redirect the three character articles into it Thanks a bunch >.< It's been very helpful to be able to wikilink these when dealing with the videogame articles. Whilst looking for interviews covering the videogame (development info) I noticed several interviews with the staff and voice cast about the movie, here's one example which I bookmarked just in case. At the very least I've seen individual interviews with Bruce Willis, Verne's voice actor and the possum's voice actor focused on the film. Here's another general interview stating Jim Carrey was going to voice RJ. The film's generated a lot of information, the problem here is that the article has been needlessly split and the focus is on plot repetition rather than real world info, but it's do-able. I'll find some of those interviews tomorrow so you can all have a look. Someone another (talk) 03:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Willis interviews:Orange.co.uk (with Wanda Sykes, Stella the skunk's voice actress)

Three voice actor interview at cinemablend. Staff interview here with some usable material (porcupines skewering the other animals, what staff members were doing to research creating the characters. Here's an interview with a video game developer, sound-alikes were used for the characters, no direct involvement with (either the film or comic creators) during development. This Jim Carrey fansite article is extremely interesting, it points to more potential material.

Bear in mind we have two very distinct entities here, the comic strip and the film. There's the details over the original characters' creation from the comic strip, there's details about the creation of the characters for the film, there's details about the voice actors and what they were up to when voicing the characters. There are at least three distinct video-game spin-offs Over the Hedge (video game), Over the Hedge (Nintendo DS) and Hammy Goes Nuts. The links above give examples of real-world context, I think there's enough there to justify a separate article, particularly as there are several more out there relating to the film, and probably some more details about the characters from the comic and some additional tidbits from the games. Someone another 02:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all to Over the Hedge (film), unless it breaks WP:SIZE restraints. References to primary-sourced information like (most of) this is perfectly acceptable given that the notability of Over the Hedge (film) is already established. I could even see keeping these separate due to stylistic problems, but I think they'll work fine being merged into the main article. Torc2 (talk) 00:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom. Doctorfluffy (talk) 20:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. -- Hiding T 12:16, 14 January 2008 (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.