Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in the Harvest Moon series

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of characters in the Harvest Moon series

This is list of extremely minor characters within a series of unconnected video games. Each game features its own set of characters, which is generally just a very minor part of the game, allowing for the characters to easily be covered within the main game articles if necessary. TTN (talk) 19:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 19:40, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep appropriate combination article for related characters. By far the clearest way to do this. Sufficient sourcing is possible from the primary sources for the games. DGG (talk) 02:18, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete After reading over the types of characters presented in the series, it appears that an all-encompassing list like this would violate WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Major characters should get their own articles (assuming they meet the notability criteria) but a list like this becomes too long and fancrufty if there aren't standards for inclusion. A list of major characters from the series would probably be appropriate. Themfromspace (talk) 06:34, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:VGSCOPE, this is exactly the kind of individually non-notable grouping which it advises against spinning out without significant secondary source coverage, and per WP:N for the same, lack of significant coverage from independent sources. The Harvest Moon series is something of an oddity in this respect, each game has a spray of individually named and identifiable characters with a few lines of dialogue a piece (depending on what's happening in the game world), but these are not major characters in the sense of having detailed backstories etc. If this list were to have all those characters then it would be an unmanageable mess. It doesn't, what it does instead is list all those who can be married by the player character in the different games, or 'rivals' who are NPCs who will marry them if the player isn't quick enough etc. Here we have another problem, there is precious little to actually be said about these characters, most of the details you could list would be things like their 'likes and dislikes' and birthdays, which again tie into the marriage aspect of gameplay, and go against VGSCOPE (again). Whichever way you spin it, the way to deal with (or leave out) these characters lies in the individual articles. Someone another 20:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a list of specific gameplay elements that goes against WP:VGSCOPE. Characters of Harvest Moon series is not in itself notable (no significant coverage in reliable secondary sources independent of the subject), therefore the detailed list is also not notable. Jay32183 (talk) 06:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the many reasons. If you think this is bad, just note that this is AFTER I trimmed a ton of content. - A Link to the Past (talk) 09:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Generally I am not against List of characters but only for tv characters because they are always some real world things to add. Moreover, this list is cleaned and that's very good. But... These are characters of a video game series and the list has not a single line of real world information. Video games have a smaller audience than tv series and the notability of secondary video game characters is seldom important. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No real-world context. This article would do better on a Wikia site. --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 06:49, 28 November 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.