Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Alice Academy characters

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 keep. W.marsh 17:40, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Alice Academy characters

Completely in-universe catalog of characters. Extremely long and full of unnecessary detail. We already have a perfectly good article on Alice Academy that contains character detail. Tony Sidaway 13:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this cruftmungous agglomeration of fair use images and in-universe description sourced from personal observations of the subject. Substantially in excess of any provable independent significance of these individual characters. Cruftbane 14:40, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Can't put it any better than Cruftbane did! Cruftmungous agglomeration indeed. Renee 14:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge into Alice Academy, which lists only a handful of the main characters (as it should per WP:SS, given the list article). The list is indeed overlong and -detailed, but some secondary characters who affect the story in significant ways should be retained by someone with sufficient knowledge of the series. (Which is, yes, arguing for saving some information based on in-universe notability, but as WP:FICT says, out-of-universe notability is a guideline limiting the existence of the article, not of sections within it.) —Quasirandom 16:37, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. How is this extremely long and full of unnecessary detail? There's like 10 sentences total - for the protagonist! A list of this length is perfectly normal for an anime as heavily character-based as Alice Academy seems to be, and a slash-and-burn-merge would not seem to be tenable - any description of the story detailed enough to not be total crap would need to link to this list anyway. --Gwern (contribs) 17:49 15 October 2007 (GMT)
Keep but redo. I haven't seen this show or read the manga, but it looks like there are more characters than should be covered (though I could be wrong). Considering how many {{Main}} templates I keep seeing on this page, it looks like a prime location to rebuild and cleanup. -- Ned Scott 03:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Firstly, I would like to agree with Gwern. A slash-and-burn-merge would not seem to be tenable - true, the detailed information would be gone. However, as Ned Scott says, it needs to be rebuild and cleanup - I agree with that. Then, lets use both users suggestions - Don't merge but rebuild (using all the information that we have on the page and try to verify them) and cleanup. Furthermore, I think it's perfectly normal for a series like Alice Academy to have such a long list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samantha Lim88 (talk • contribs)
Keep. Each character is not extremely long, but I could do without the character profile (the blood type, nickname, ect...). Why is the questioned article itself not tagged that it is up for AfD? (Duane543 19:46, 19 October 2007 (UTC))[reply]
- An anon removed it and I guess no one noticed. [1] I have since restored the tag. -- Ned Scott 22:03, 19 October 2007 (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.