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Komiks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Wikipedia is not a foreign dictionary. Komics (TV series) Komiks (TV series) should be moved here. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:49, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of playing cards related anime and manga (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Creator objected to proposed deletion. They provided sources on the article's talk page, but I'm not really convinced by them; one is a YouTube video by Mother's Basement (an obviously unreliable source), another is a BackerKit page for a TTRPG, and yet a third one isn't a meaningful source at all, but just a content tag on CoroCoro's website. The others they linked are at least from sites that could conceivably be utilized in Wikipedia, but they're all mostly discussing Yu-Gi-Oh, with a couple of them mentioning other series in passing mostly in relation to Yu-Gi-Oh. Several of the not-outright-unreliable or user-generated sources here are from WP:VALNET, and most of the rest are just from Anime News Network. The current state of the article is generally poorly sourced, and I don't see the potential state looking much better. It doesn't look like this passes NLIST. silviaASH (inquire within) 00:25, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: There is no substantial change in the article after the objection from Setenzatsu.2 (talk · contribs). The issue with the user is clearly a WP:IDHT case, and I wonder why they did not receive any kind of sanction after being reported to ANI. Xexerss (talk) 03:08, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
From looking at the discussion, it seems to me like they went inactive for a few days and no one followed up on it before the topic got archived. They also never responded to the discussion and didn't edit between May 21st and 25th, so I'd say it was a pretty clear case of ANI flu. Obviously this AfD isn't the right venue to discuss their conduct, but given the quite obvious WP:RADAR issues it should probably be dealt with somehow. silviaASH (inquire within) 05:09, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Manga: The Complete Guide, p. 122, has a sentence of comparison between card games related to manga vs. video games. Trading Card Games For Dummies has a 13-page chapter on trading card games related to anime, manga and comics. Daranios (talk) 19:51, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think it should be possible to create an article about card-themed anime and manga series (I can't think of a particular title at the moment). The problem is this list article and its poorly sourced and worded content. I don't feel like I'm reading an encyclopedic Wikipedia article, but a Fandom article or something like that. Xexerss (talk) 00:19, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, even if this article topic is notable, I'm not sure a list is the appropriate way to cover it, and I think WP:TNT applies. silviaASH (inquire within) 00:22, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and possibly rename to List of card games related anime and manga or something more simple. As by the discussion above, I don't think WP:NLIST is actually a problem. I also don't think this is a case of WP:TNT, which would mean that nothing here is usable in an encyclopedic article: The introduction needs sources, and then probably a rephrasing in accordance with the sources. But this is primarily a list, so that's a minor issue. The list below could nicely fulfill the purpose of navigation which is one of major reasons to have list at Wikipedia, if non-relevant examples were removed. There's enough blue links here to still constitute a proper list after such a trim. Other examples should in my view only be included if their inclusion can be verified by a reliable secondary source, solving the other issue raised in the nomination. So in total, spelling out an inclusion critereon and implementing it can save this through normal editing, which means deletion is not appropriate in accordance with WP:ARTN and WP:ATD. Daranios (talk) 09:56, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and rename to List of card games related anime and manga per above. ArvindPalaskar (talk) 16:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Albert Carreres (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Lacks SIGCOV in independent sources. The two sources mentioned in this article only mention him in passing. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 18:10, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Midnight Sun (character) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This and this are the only independent sources I was able to find on this character. This is an incredibly minor villain (outside Shang-Chi's origin story), so there isn't a lot that can be written about the subject beyond plot synopsis.

It's been tagged for notability concerns for awhile, and it has had known issues with its over-reliance on primary sources since 2014. –MJLTalk 03:10, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Laura's Star and the Dream Monsters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NFILM. All I could find is one short review by KinderFilmWelt (Children's Film World?) to go with the one already sourced in the article, not AFAIK "full-length reviews by two or more nationally known critics." Clarityfiend (talk) 23:03, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Film is part of a film series with 2 other films and a tv special released by a well-known distributor. the first film doesn't have that many sources either. I also found another review by Kino.de here: http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/lauras-stern-und-die-traummonster/123654, I'll add it to the article later. TheDutchArchivist (talk) 09:16, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Mr. Mackey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non-notable character, fails GNG. Almost all of the sources are primary, and the ones that aren't are of questionable reliability and/or do not demonstrate significant coverage. A WP:BEFORE search did not yield results. Madeleine (talk) 21:22, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
    1. Halsall, Alison (2008). "Bigger Longer & Uncut: South Park and the Carnivalesque". In Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (ed.). Taking South Park Seriously. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 3536. doi:10.2307/jj.18253053.6. ISBN 978-0-7914-7565-2. JSTOR jj.18253053.6. Retrieved 2025-05-25 – via Google Books.

      The book notes: "No better example demonstrates Parker and Stone's concern with the scatological than Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, the talking piece of shit who "comes out of the toilet once a year to give presents to all the little boys and girls who have fiber in their diets." Mr. Hankey is excrement incarnate: He jumps out of the toilet and leaves a brown mark, a smear, a stain, on every surface he touches as a reminder to the viewer of the inherent dirtiness of the human body no matter how much we try to aestheticize it.* Mr. Hankey's stains systematically mess up the cleanliness of the social order. ... What makes Mr. Hankey such a complicated piece of shit, however, is the fact that he is also a parody of one of the most widely recognized icons of American popular culture, Mickey Mouse, complete with plump brown body, gloved hands and large, happy eyes. Both are lovable, kind, and spout inanities. Consider Mr. Hankey's nonsensical expression to Kyle: "Gosh, Kyle, you smell like flowers." Parker and Stone pervert this world-renowned cultural icon by suggesting that he is nothing more than a piece of shit; further, their codification of Mr. Hankey as a "Christmas Poo" characterizes Christmas, ... as shit. ... As a brown smear, Mr. Hankey operates repeatedly as a force of disruption. Significantly, in the "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" episode, Hankey helps to thwart the sanitization of the Christian holiday that the mayor and inhabitants of South Park are promoting, especially in their nondenominational and therefore inoffensive holiday pageant designed by Philip Glass. In the episode "A Very Crappy Christmas," Mr. Hankey's noted absence from the town leaves the inhabitants with no Christmas spirit; again, then, the absence of this piece of holiday shit disrupts the "regular" commercialism that Parker and Stone use to characterize the Christmas season."

      The book notes in a footnote: "The difficulty that this character offers also lies in the fact that, like Mickey Mouse, Mr. Hankey is a minstrel figure, a figure who is conventionally a member of a and of entertainers with blackened faces, performing songs and music ostensibly of African-American origin."

    2. Thompson, Dave (2014). South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know About The Who, What, Where, When of America's Favorite Mountain Town. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. ISBN 978-1-4803-5064-9. Retrieved 2025-05-25 – via Google Books.

      The book notes: "School counselor and occasional teacher Mr. Mackey is widely regarded as one of the most levelheaded members of the South Park Elementary faculty, rarely flustered, seldom enraged, and prone to reinforce his every point with a casual, friendly exclamation of "mkay?" However, he is also prey to occasional misunderstandings and miscalculations, such as the time a sample of marijuana he was utilizing in a drug education class was stolen. He was subsequently fired, and, having also lost his apartment, he briefly became a drug user himself. During this period he married a fellow addict; the pair then honeymooned in India, before Mackey alone was rescued by the A Team. Disturbingly, although the marriage was consummated, Mackey was so high at the time he had no memory of the event."

    3. Fisher, Roy; Harris, Ann; Jarvis, Christine (2008). Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners. London: Routledge. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-415-33241-5. Retrieved 2025-05-25 – via Google Books.

      The book notes: "South Park's school counsellor, Mr Mackey, is another sad misfit who fails the children. He too merely carries out orders. The children are sent to him to be 'cured' of their swearing. He doesn't counsel, but lectures them on their bad behaviour, then entertains them with a totally inappropriate song, 'It's Easy MKay?', that parodies the 'Just Say No' anti-drugs campaign, revealing an equally unsubtle and ill-informed approach to a social problem. The ineffectual nature of his interventions is encapsulated by the fact that after joining in a rousing chorus of the song, the children go straight back to see the film that introduced them to the language in the first place. The film and the series offer a painful critique of approaches to education that focus on superficial rather than deep learning and which are undemocratic and complacent about wider social and political debates."

    4. Peters, Mark (2007). Yada, Yada, Doh! 111 Television Words That Made the Leap from the Screen to Society. Oak Park, Illinois: Marion Street Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-933338-31-6. Retrieved 2025-05-25 – via Internet Archive.

      The book notes: "TV Origin: M'kay is best known as the catchphrase of Mr. Mackey, the guidance counselor on South Park. His first episode was “Mr. Hankey,The Christmas Poo” (written by Trey Parker, Dec. 17, 1997), and the word was first used as Mackey confronted a very confused Kyle, whose singing, Santa-hat-clad friend Mr. Hankey is only perceived as a garden-variety piece of crap by the rest of the world. Mr. Mackey says: “Now, uh, Kyle, as your school counselor, I want to try and help you confront your problem, m’kay?” In an introduction to the episode, Trey Parker says Mr. Mackey was based on one of his counselors from junior high."

    There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Mr. Mackey to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

    Cunard (talk) 10:31, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Kris Millsap (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG. A behind-the-scenes film production worker doesn't get a lot of media notice. He's no exception. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:08, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Beach Head (G.I. Joe) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG entirely. Mostly plot article of a non-notable cartoon character. (The previous nomination was closed as procedural keep due to the nom's disruption, but the merits were not discussed at all). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 07:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not actually sure any of the G. I. Joe characters flood-nominated recently warrant deletion, most of them just need to be merged to the appropriate character list articles, as the vast majority have *some* notability, even if it's far from what's needed for GNG. As merging after an AfD involves simply redirecting because closing admins are busy people, I would suggest the sub-par Joe articles would be better sorted through proactive use of editing and merge/redirect templates, which would be a less time-consuming method for everyone involved, and probably wouldn't take any more time than decent BEFORE and researching AfD votes. Otherwise there's the risk we end up in one of those moronic loops where the list directs people to the main article, which directs people back to the list, which is a lot more irritating to 99% of readers of Wikipedia than an article being on the crufty side. Personally don't see the need to have a ticking clock on that being done after 19 years or whatever of the article being there. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 09:20, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I was wondering on if you are for or against the merge. --Rtkat3 (talk) 21:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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