Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women in Devil May Cry

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 merge to List of characters in Devil May Cry, which is left as an exercise to the reader. Sandstein 15:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Women in Devil May Cry

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My position is that the information on these characters would be better housed within the pages for the games they have appeared in, giving their plot importance and gameplay statistics (if any). The characters Lucia and Lady have only appeared in one game each (DMC2 and DMC3 respectively), while Trish appeared as an alternate costume in DMC2 (with no impact on the plot) and taking the place of Silvia for the unlockable Dante mode in the PS2 release of "Viewtiful Joe." I feel their notability beyond these individual games is negligible, and that the article fails to make a case for breaking them out of those game pages. By comparison, I do not see a "Women in Mario Games" page, nor a "Women in Final Fantasy Games" page, and those are much older game series with bigger rosters of characters with deeper backstories. --Boradis 00:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Purge and Merge or Rename and Expand This article either needs to be broadened into a Characters of Devil May Cry-type article instead of just focusing on the ladies or it needs to be deleted so that the content can be merged into articles on each game. Lankybugger 14:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge Alright, after perusing the articles some more I noticed that there's actually individual articles for most of the Devil May Cry characters though there aren't any links to them in the Devil May Cry template, strangely enough. Since none of the ladies appear in more than one game, I suggest merging the ladies to their respective games and leaving it at that. The portion of Women in Devil May Cry on Lady, for example, reads like a plot summary of the game. Lankybugger 15:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Merge I would say merge to a List of Characters in Devil May Cry or a similarily titled page rather than putting the stuff on each game's page. Mister.Manticore 15:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Dante, Virgil and Sparda all have their own articles. Aside from them, most of the characters in the Devil May Cry series tend to be confined to one game (although this may change for Devil May Cry 4). Lankybugger 17:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't mean that there's no value in having one page for all the characters in the series. Mister.Manticore 17:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

At the same time, that most of the characters warrant an article speaks to the range. Currently the Women in Devil May Cry article is just a plot summary of each game, centered around the women in question instead of Dante. For the most part the women in these games are inextricably linked to the plot of the games (Trish was designed to appeal to Dante, Lucia was the catalyst for the events of Devil May Cry 2, Lady's father Arkham/Jester is a large portion of Devil May Cry 3) and any information regarding them is probably going to be duplicated in the articles in question regardless. Likewise the minor characters in Devil May Cry games tend to be, well, minor. They generally don't warrant much, if any consideration outside of the Plot Summary. This may be something to take to the Devil May Cry pages, however. Lankybugger 18:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. PresN 21:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Merging to a character list would probably be appropriate, but the prose in this article is not worth salvaging. Wickethewok 19:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to a List of characters in Devil May Cry series as Mister.Manticore suggested. A general character list is always good as long as it doesn't get too big. And addressing the "worth of the prose", I think any prose is better than nothing since it can be both improved gradually and rewritten from scratch anytime. Meanwhile, one can still extract useful information from it. --Koveras ^☭ 22:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge any salvageable bits, delete the rest. --Alan Au 19:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Mister Manticore. --Wizardman 04:48, 4 January 2007 (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.