Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seeker (Transformers)

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 delete, for all articles. No bias against creating redirects to an appropriate target if someone is so inclined. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 12:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seeker (Transformers)

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First batch of a long list of non-notable Transformers articles (there are still over 600 articles on these characters). These are some of the more obviously non-notable characters, none having any significant third-party sources whatsoever. I am nominating the more obvious non-notable characters here as some previous AfDs have ended in merges which are then ignored by the creator and Wikiproject until someone happens along and does it (which usually involves just redirecting the article). I've fixed two today which had been like that for six months. Black Kite (t) (c) 10:07, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages:

Merge to an appropriate character list, Edward321 (talk) 13:01, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 15:33, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect:

Seeker (Transformers) --> List of Decepticons

Octopunch --> List of characters in Transformers comics

Krok (Transformers) --> List of Autobots

Liege Maximo --> List of Decepticons

Longview (Transformers) --> List of Autobots and List of Decepticons (two separate toys)

Magnificus --> List of Decepticons

Nemesis Breaker --> List of Decepticons

Deployers --> List of characters in Transformers comics

Devcon --> List of Autobots

Emirate Xaaron --> List of Autobots

Lord Cholmondeley --> List of The Transformers human characters

Comettor --> List of Autobots

Impactor (Transformers) --> List of Autobots

Rockbuster (Transformers) --> List of Maximals

There's no question-- none of these characters exhibit any notability outside of their in-universe context. Merging and redirecting as per the given information on those pages. I can also help with merging-- I will watch the page. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 18:24, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP/MERGE/INDIVIDUALIZE, not that any of these individual characters are particularly noteworthy, but as some of the are characters in anime series or comic which have articles, I'd merge them into those series. The nominator's complaint about it taking too long to merge the articles is completely invalid. Wikipedia has no due date. Mathewignash (talk) 21:53, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- There is no due date, but since you don't take any responsibilty for cleaning up the issues you have caused, then some action has to be taken. When the community decides an article should be merged, if it is your article and you take no action, then someone else must do so. You have taken no action whatsoever to fix the non-notability and fair-use issues in your articles, and quite frankly this is starting to border on the disruptive. Black Kite (t) (c) 00:28, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - So you are saying I own the articles in question? I didn't know that. No wait, I'm "disruptive" by not carrying out the edits you want fast enough, so I guess YOU own ME. Mathewignash (talk) 09:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - You can't have it both ways. You are the first to complain when people try to delete articles or content from those articles, but you won't lift a finger to actually fix problems that have been identified. Personally, if I had created those articles, I wouldn't want them to sit around with a great big purple AFDMERGE tag on them for months, I'd actually do the merge - at least I'd know that it was done properly then, as opposed to someone else coming along six months later, assuming (correctly) that no-one has any interest in a merge, and just redirecting it. Black Kite (t) (c) 10:45, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge suggestions:

Seeker (Transformers) --> List of Decepticons

Octopunch --> Pretenders (Transformers)

Krok (Transformers) --> Action Masters

Liege Maximo --> List of characters in Transformers comics

Longview (Transformers) --> List of Autobots and List of Decepticons (two separate toys)

Magnificus --> List of Decepticons

Nemesis Breaker --> List of Transformers: Cybertron characters

Deployers --> List of characters in Transformers comics

Devcon --> List of Autobots

Emirate Xaaron --> List of characters in Transformers comics

Lord Cholmondeley --> List of The Transformers human characters

Comettor --> List of Autobots and List of Transformers Armada Mini-Cons (two seperate characters)

Impactor (Transformers) --> Wreckers (Transformers)

Rockbuster (Transformers) --> List of Beast Wars Neo characters

Mathewignash (talk) 22:18, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Just like there are over 600 Pokemon species, there are only a handful that are notable. Those that are not may still have a place in the universe as 'minor characters'. I don't know enough about the details, but there are those prepared to rationalise this, and I would leave it in their capable hands. Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:55, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Merge As Ohconfucius says, there are Pokemon species and not each one is notable. I too do not know enough about Transformers to ~~access~~assess the notable characters, so I too can not judge which are notable and which are not.Curb Chain (talk) 07:37, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The bottom of the barrel for Transformers fancruft. Toy guides and fan-driven fansites were attempted sources, none of which pass out guidelines. Delete all and be done with this, please, this is becoming a massive time sinkTarc (talk) 03:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete These again are poorly sourced articles with questionable notability. Dwanyewest (talk) 00:49, 12 August 2011 (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.