Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil)

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 Delete This article is entirely in-world and lacks real-world documentation to establish notability and meet the verifiability guidelines. The only proper reference is the game guide and this is insufficiently independent to meet these needs. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:14, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil)[edit]

Unsourced article consisting of nothing but plot elements from the Resident Evil games. Ridernyc (talk) 05:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep In good faith, I believe that this article could be sourced so as to meet WP:FICT. The article does need cleanup, but it appears to do a good job of compiling information that is strewn throughout this extensive game series. -Verdatum (talk) 15:48, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Unless you can assure us that you know of notable resources that can be added, or you can go ahead and add them, this should be deleted because of its lack of proof of notability. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply Given that this topic spans multiple works, (seven or more video games, reference in the movie adaptation, and a novelization series), and given that the popularity has spawned the production of a Tokyo Marui replica of their sidearm, I believe this is a sufficiently notable fictional entity, deserving of it's own article. I believe any remaining issues constitute a surmountable problem. This article has only been tagged for two months, and there are no specific complaints made in the article's talk page (other than cleanup issues I've just raised as a result of this afd). -Verdatum (talk) 22:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will believe you if you can produce some references, otherwise its just your opinion. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 05:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someone another (talk) 17:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep since most of this can be attributed to primary sources (in fact, the number of footnote citations in the article is somewhat misleading because many of the sentences have citations built in; for example, "According to the instruction manual for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo DS versions of the game (as well as [...]), the Raccoon Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. unit was founded in 1996 [...]"). The only remaining question is therefore its notability, which I believe is not a problem because of the importance of the series (spanning multiple media) and the importance of the organization within the series. — brighterorange (talk) 15:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

primary sources are a problem, so is real world context. This article needs real world context backed up by reliable secondary sources per WP:Plot. Ridernyc (talk) 12:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - lacks independent reliable sources. Addhoc (talk) 21:04, 27 December 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.