Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Darksiders characters

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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. MBisanz ^talk 22:50, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of Darksiders characters[edit]

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Article fails WP:LISTN. Would have considered merging, but all of the content is based on refs that simply wikilink to other Wikipedia articles. MrClog (talk) 22:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 22:19, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 22:19, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and trim into the main Darksiders (series) article, which argubly can do with a bit of narrative premise and characters. Not all the characters will survive this, but certainly most of them. --Masem (t) 22:30, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Masem, I have considered merging, but none of the content seems properly sourced. --MrClog (talk) 22:37, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have enough time with the series as a whole to be able to comment, but we certainly can turn to reviews of the games to establish characters, or for example this Polygon article can be used to briefly describe War. I'm talking one or two line descriptions on the frachrise page, along with brief plot summaries of each game. Also keep in mind: information that is not transformative from primary fictional works do not need to be sourced (but if they can be, they should be), but that information should be as concise as possible. In terms of this list, the whole set of characters from Darksiders is no way notable on their own, and thus just relocating that to a notable video game series is reasonable. --Masem (t) 22:51, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I would also not be opposed to the TNT/REFUND idea given that 1) there's past copyvios in this history and 2) none of the text is really "unique" and certainly not pulling from non-primary sources. It would be different if there was some unique secondary coverage included, but there really isn't. --Masem (t) 14:40, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per TNT. If someone wants to create a sourced version then let them do it in a draft and resubmit._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 02:26, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge' with Darksiders (series), it has room in it there so no need for separate articles. Dream Focus 04:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Would you also agree to the proposal below? --MrClog (talk) 20:12, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No. Just replace the article with a redirect and tell people to merge over whatever they want to exist in the other article. Be able to check the history and see if anything else is worth saving. No need adding extra steps to the process. Dream Focus 21:23, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(comment by nom) Because the text needs some work before it should be included, I suggest deleting it but WP:REFUNDing it if an editor volunteers to work on it in their userspace. — Masem and Zxcvbnm agree on doing this. --MrClog (talk) 06:40, 24 July 2019 (UTC); edited 21:47, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and refund per above. Sergecross73 msg me 02:25, 30 July 2019 (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.