Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Thomas & Friends railway engines

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The result was redirect to List of characters in The Railway Series. Tone 00:00, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of Thomas & Friends railway engines[edit]

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Fails WP:LISTN, WP:IINFO because the list has no evidence of independent notability and offers nothing more than being an unnecessary in-universe list. It has been tagged as a concern for over a decade and does not belong in an encyclopaedia. Pure WP:FANCRUFT Spiderone 18:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 18:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 18:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 18:13, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Djm-leighpark (talk) 00:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear. In looking at this, I started following links to the extant articles about individual engines, as well as the other "narrow gauge" list and its characters. So far every article that I've clicked on has been either unsourced or primary sourced. Seems like a set of pages perhaps best taken to ttte.fandom.com? I don't have a great sense of the notability of any of this stuff, and a search for sources is made difficult by low quality results... — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:34, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fancruft at its best. It has a better place on Fandom Wiki. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:52, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 07:32, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of characters in The Railway Series, in this universe, aren't engines=characters anyway? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete: Fancruft. Fails WP:LISTN. Can't be referenced because it's WP:OR // Timothy :: talk 03:30, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Light merge to List of characters in The Railway Series or List of Thomas & Friends characters (which should be merged with each other). The parent list is notable, but has been split into this separate articles that fail WP:LISTN; if we delete this without including the characters in the parent it would be incomplete. YorkshireLad ✿ ^(talk) 14:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Just no. This is trivial and not encyclopedia worthy. Does not pass our SNG or GNG Lightburst (talk) 17:25, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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