Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of anime 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 of the debate was delete. Metamagician3000 07:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of anime characters

Listcruft, indiscriminate information, huge; where should I start? At best, this should be trimmed down into List of notable anime characters, but even then you'll have WP:V issues. I say just burninate the whole thing. Danny Lilithborne 18:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- ˑˑˑ日本穣 ^{Talk to Nihonjoε} 18:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. ˑˑˑ日本穣 ^{Talk to Nihonjoε} 19:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia isn't a Who's Who of anime. Awful listcruft. Brian G. Crawford 21:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The title naturally assumes the character is notable. If we delete this, we have to delete List of African Americans. BlueGoose 21:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment We probably should. The first time that article was listed for AfD, several other lists of famous people based on ethnicity were listed as precedents to keep. Since then, many of those lists have been deleted. I'm not going to relist it, but it's probably something worthy of note here. Also, it's a bit silly to say something is notable because it's named in an article. Danny Lilithborne 04:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The best rationale to delete this would be its possible redundancy with the "Manga and anime characters" category. However, lists can be annotated while categories can't, and we have plenty of list/category pairs anyway. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:37, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• weak keep I don't think verifiability is an issue, nor size as Wikipedia isn't paper.Roodog2k 22:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment There's precedent to delete lists based on size. A list of music with song titles not in the lyrics was deleted a week or so ago based on inordinate size. This list has the potential to be as big. This should be nipped in the bud; there's no reason for a list like this to be here. Danny Lilithborne 04:03, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
    • comment Because of size? Just because one list was deleted doesn't mean this one should be either. I say that its not too big and that its verifiable. I think there are better reasons to delete this article, such as indiscriminate information. Hence the weak in the weak keep. Roodog2k 14:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. While a list could be annotated, one as big as this definitely shouldn't - if the character's important enough for information it belongs either in an article on the character, or the series, or a "Minor characters from series" article. Hence in this case it's redundant with the existence of the categories for Manga and anime characters and Manga and anime series. Confusing Manifestation 01:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete arbitrary list of arbitrary (but massively numerous) fictional character type. This is what categories are for. Just zis Guy you know? 08:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• There's a huge number of such characters and a list serves no function except perhaps to stimulate obsessives to write yet more superfluous articles. WP is not toilet paper. For articles that already exist, use a category. Delete. -- Hoary 12:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• DELETE and REPLACE Turn into a dab page linking to more specific lists of anime characters. 132.205.45.110 21:18, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:LC. Stifle (talk) 00:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Totally unmanageable list with possibly infinite ammount of material. --Kunzite 00:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

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.