Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Call of Duty characters (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Consensus is clear following relisting. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:24, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of Call of Duty characters[edit]

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WP:VGSCOPE No. 6: a long list of characters, described from an in-universe point-of-view, with nothing on the development or reception of the characters. There are a total of 15 Call of Duty games, set in World War II, the Cold War, in the recent past and in the near future. There are very few recurring characters. Looking through the WP:VG/RS custom Google search engine shows no reliable, in-depth articles. That Captain Price and Soap MacTavish have articles doesn't mean all characters are notable. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 08:01, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I think we should keep this article because readers would need to read some information of some characters in that franchise. It's true we need more reliable sources for these information and we need some extra clean up about the development & reception of those characters, but it doesn't mean the article should be deleted. BattleshipMan (talk) 08:20, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Articles exist because of WP:GNG, not because the reader might need to know about them. I've looked through the WP:VG/RS custom Google search engine, it does not bring up any in-depth results. Right now it just retells the stories from the games from the characters' point-of-view, which is unnecessary and redundant. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 08:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete list, redirect each character: Now that you've given a reason for getting rid of this, I agree that this list is unnecessary. However, I feel that each character listed should be redirected to their respective game article (i.e. Roach and Ghost each get redirected to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2). If this can't be done, then that's just fine. But in terms of this list, it's not needed, it seems. Aria1561 (talk) 21:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:33, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as video game cruft, contains only plot summary, no independent reliable sources (let alone sufficient to confer notability on the topic). Sandstein 10:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (or redirect to Call of Duty). (1) The characters lack sourcing as a group and are not noted as independent concept from the individual games or series. (2) The article, as it stands, is video game trivia. (3) Anything that needs to be said about these characters can be said in either the individual game or series articles. Proportionality. czar 14:44, 15 March 2016 (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.