Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iron Man's armor in other media

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 merge to Iron Man's armor#In other media. T. Canens (talk) 05:54, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Iron Man's armor in other media[edit]

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This article is a collection of largely uncited, trivial information about different variations of a notable character's costume. The costume itself is sufficiently covered in Iron Man#Armor. The sources that are present in this article are mainly comic book issues and films, and not to critical discussion about the article topic.

While there might be a small amount of information here that can be moved to the main article, the vast majority of it fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:19, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:19, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning keep, since there is substantial sourceable content distinct to the versions of the subject represented in film, where the armor is at times virtually a character itself. BD2412 T 21:58, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Iron Man's armor as the title here is too vague, assuming that the reader knows what media is meant. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:40, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Davidson: Merge what exactly? A full merge of such a long convoluted article? And why to Iron Man's armor, why not to Iron Man in other media? Also, what if Iron Man's armor is deleted in the other afd? - hako9 (talk) 00:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure exactly as the overall topic is huge and consists of many articles – see {{Iron Man}}. The main thing to decide here is that deletion is not appropriate per WP:ATD and WP:IGNORINGATD. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into the main article. There is no reason to seperate out into multiple articles. Especially considering there are lots and lots of people who really only know Ironman from the films.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:43, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I had created this separate article because of the amount of content between what is in this article and the main armor article, so merging it back will once again create a WP:SIZE issue. Alternatively, split the MCU/film info to Iron Man's armor (Marvel Cinematic Universe), since most of this article is about that anyways, and then you could probably merge what's left back to the main armor article. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:26, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Iron Man's Armor - I don't see why the pertinent information about Iron Man's armour can't be covered in the main Iron Man page without going into excruciating detail, but if it must exist, then it needs to cover his armour in all forms of media not just the comics. Most of his armours outside of the comics are direct adaptations of armours from the comics anyway. Dark knight 2149 05:55, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per above, no reason this needs to be split off. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment would anyone who is !voting merge be opposed to splitting off the "Film/Live action" section which is basically the MCU info as I suggested above? @Andrew Davidson, Johnpacklambert, Darkknight2149, and Piotrus: - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:39, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP There is no possible way to merge all of that into any other article. This is a valid spinout article for size reasons. Reliable sources do talk about Iron Man's armor, this a notable enough topic on its own. Dream Focus 16:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Do we need to list all of his armours in every form of media? Even the ones that are a straight adaptation of armours from the comics? That feels more like a job for Marvel Database. In my opinion, a prose article for Iron Man's Armor that's an overview of the entire topic would suffice. Dark knight 2149 22:20, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - It's doubtful that the armor itself is really separate enough from the character to warrant its own article, but a trivial list of every incarnation definitely has no place on this site without an abundance of real world information backing it. If the parent article remains, summary style descriptions should be used to describe the most important versions in a singular two to four paragraph section, backed with some kind of real world context. TTN (talk) 00:48, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Iron Man's armor#In other media. BOZ (talk) 05:37, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Iron Man's armor#In other media. As stated by TTN, the select few actually notable examples backed by reliable sources can be included in the parent article, but a massive list of every appearance that is either poorly sourced or not sourced at all is nothing but Trivia, at best. Rorshacma (talk) 17:42, 15 August 2020 (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.