Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spells in Slayers

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. Gazi moff 21:37, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Spells in Slayers[edit]

Game guide, fancruft with no real-world relevance or coverage. Punkmorten (talk) 16:54, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete junk. If there's a Slayers Wikia, maybe they'll take it. JuJube (talk) 03:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- Ned Scott 07:17, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Information seems to be duplicated at Wikia (it's not properly attributed though). The Wikia article claims to have its information from [1], but there isn't that much information there, not sure if there's another source for it. --Amalthea^Talk 11:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Top of the article says it's a list of only the most important spells, yet it's pretty clearly a comprehensive list of everything, generally a pretty good sign that the fanbase got out of hand and overdid it. More importantly, since there's already a perfect description of magic in the Slayers universe on the main Slayers article, this article would be redundant and unnecessary even if all the other problems with it were fixed. Gelmax (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It actually doesn't seem to be a game guide of any sort and using the fancruft argument is looked down up in AfDs. I'm sure your intentions are in the right place, but you should at least have a basic understanding of what you're trying to delete before you do it. - Norse Am Legend (talk) 20:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - huge mass of excessive plot summary. Zero notability asserted. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 22:01, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:PLOT violation and consists of a great deal of original research. This is a laundry list of nearly every spell in the series. --Farix (Talk) 23:16, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator seems to have not quite grasped that this is a novel/manga/anime series, not a game (not that the lead does a good job of clarifying this), so the game guide argument is invalid. It is, however, as others note pretty darn plotty, without any real-world context or discrimination. Although flagged for rescue, all that's been done since the AFD started is a reorganization of the headers, and frankly a cursory search I'm not finding evidence that the spells in themself are a topic of discussion and interest. Delete. —Quasirandom (talk) 16:58, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I don't see how that article can be "rescued", no mater how you organize them. The topic itself is as much of a problem as the shape of the article. --Farix (Talk) 17:12, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Without sources to support notability, I agree. —Quasirandom (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This split off the main article looks like a well-intended bit poorly executed split. The main article is large. If they had done "Setting and magic of Slayers" and included the 5-6 paragraphs we would have a better sub-article rather than a list with every spell imaginable. If I were to wave a majic wand (and cast a clean-up spell) I would redo the split to encompass the whole section and then clean it up including, of course, sourcing it. Banjeboi 12:38, 6 August 2008 (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.