Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of minor Scooby-Doo characters

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 16:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of minor Scooby-Doo characters

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Non-notable listcruft/fancruft, we already have List of Scooby-Doo characters, also see this ANI thread. SemiHypercube 16:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm leaning towards agreeing with nom and Katniss on this one. Unnecessary fork, debate can happen at the original article over what minor characters should go on the list.^{Thanks, and have a}Happy 2019! from L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 17:41, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a temp link to the ANI thread until it's archived. Wikipedia:Administrators noticeboard/Incidents#Clear_case_of_WP:NOTHERE^{Thanks, and have a}Happy 2019! from L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 20:27, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fully agree with everything said so far. Having seen the series as well, 95% of those characters in the article are one-offs and very trivial. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 19:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is not what it purports to be. It is not a list of minor characters; It is a fork of the existing character list article including all the main characters. Essentially, this is the article that its authors would like the existing character list article to be if it weren't for ~~those meddling kids~~ editors insisting on following the rules properly. Insofar as this is a duplicate it is unnecessary. Insofar as it is not a duplicate, it is full of admittedly minor characters and it is non-notable. In fact, were it to be kept I'd suggest a rename to List of non-notable Scooby-Doo characters that they wouldn't let us put in the other article, the spoilsports!. The "referencing" is just awful, both in its failure to link many of the "references" to the material they purport to reference and in the references themselves. Some are primary (i.e. the episodes themselves). Many are non-RS. Some are Wikipedia itself! There is very deep ineptitude here and, if what I read on ANI is true, worse. So this needs to be deleted. Also the authors need to be investigated for sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry/tag-team editing and, if the situation is as bad as reported (which I have not checked for myself), they need to have their rubber masks pulled off and be carted off at the end of the show. --DanielRigal (talk) 20:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the above. Aoba47 (talk) 12:35, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per nom et alia, of course: WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE collection of every detail known on a subject. ——SerialNumber54129 22:37, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all of the above Spiderone 23:24, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the above, especially for DanielRigal managing to work in a "meddling kids" reference. Note: Check out the entry for "Abraham Lincoln" while you still have the chance. --Calton | Talk 10:24, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all the above, I've also noticed that the creator of this page has also created The Hex Girls (fictional band) which is also up for deletion discussion. I think there is no reason for the inclusion of either article in Wikipedia because the content is trivial at best. Note: In order to prevent a WP:COI I recommended The Hex Girls (fictional band) for CSD per WP:A7 but it didn't go through and I've also voted at the deletion discussion. ~ Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:26, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Usually when "minor characters" is in the name of an article, it's probably fancruft, unless it has a very good reason for existing and this one doesn't. This belongs on Wikia rather than Wikipedia._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 04:59, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Minor characters is a clear giveaway as to the notability of this topic. Ajf773 (talk) 08:57, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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