Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Hex Girls

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. Overall consensus from the community after the period of discussion from AFD is to delete the page. Views felt that there were not enough significant secondary coverage in multiple WP:RS sources, in order to satisfy WP:NOTE. I will be more than happy in the future to userfy the contents, so that editors may work to further improve the page in userspace, in order to attempt to satisfy and demonstrate WP:NOTE capability, to then discuss moving the page back to article mainspace. — Cirt (talk) 17:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Hex Girls[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 19:29, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 15:30, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 15:30, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete The article does not deserve it's own page, but it should be somewhere on Wikipedia. However, I have already searched for a page to redirect it to and could not find one. Maybe someone should create a page List of characters in Scooby-Doo. JDDJS (talk) 15:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No out-of-universe context or notability. --Crusio (talk) 22:04, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No Delete I think that the characters deserve their own page, because they are one of the few groups that has appeared on more than one Scooby-Doo show or movie. Besides, in terms of context it is pretty acurate. 22:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.246.159.36 (talk)
Keep Google news search shows coverage in reliable independent sources like Malaysia Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Hamilton Spectator, etc. So, the most drastic action needed here is at most maybe a merge to another Scooby-Doo related article, but certainly not complete deletion. Sharksaredangerous (talk) 19:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:21, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Per JDDJS, the topic is not notable enough, but can be mentioned on a related page. Sharksardangerous, a simple Google news search [1] does not return any relevant results. I am assuming that those sources you cited only gave a brief/passing mention of "The Hex Girls" or need some other combination of keywords to find.--EdwardZhao (talk) 02:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There isn't significant coverage of this topic in reliable secondary sources. Neelix (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Even if the article were to be properly sourced the information is far from being deserving of it's own article. Dylan2448 (talk) 21:04, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The fictional characters do not meet the general notability guideline and their article is a plot-only description of a fictional work. All that one finds with a search engine test are minor mentions with regards to the plot of the shows where they appear, nothing ever mentioning reception or significance in the real world for the fictional characters by themselves. I do not see evidence of multiple reliable secondary sources that address the fictional characters in detail or giving them analytic or evaluative claims to presume that they are notable beyond the plot of the series to deserve a stand-alone article. The article doesn't even provide anything worth merging since everything lacks verifiability with no references, so most of the content is original research by synthesis at best. Jfgslo (talk) 05:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment after close to future contributors: Note to anyone considering future recreation of this article: I added references from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and Hartford Courant. Above I also described coverage in the Malaysia Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The Hamilton Spectator. So, if you want to recreate this article you'll have to do better than just those sources. Good luck, Sharksaredangerous (talk) 19:02, 28 June 2011 (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.