Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Signal Flare

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. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. The issue of redirecting, merging, moving or what have you can be discussed on the article's talk page. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:44, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Signal Flare

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Another mediocre article with substandard sources to support its notability which shouldn't exist. Dwanyewest (talk) 02:55, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The article being mediocre shouldn't be the factor. The question is if you think WP should be an info source for things like the Transformers. If so keep, if not delete. This article is informative to a person looking for info on these fictional robots. Secondary sources are not likely to say much about them, and even if they did that would not justify the article. Kitfoxxe (talk) 04:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WP:ITSUSEFUL isn't a useful argument the article doesn't have reliable third person information to support its claims of notability therefore it fails via WP:RS. Dwanyewest (talk) 04:09, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would be your supporter if you want to launch a campaign to change WP culture so that, for instance, ONE article on the Transformers would be enough. (Okay maybe an article on each TV series, movie, etc. as well.) On the other hand if explaining fictional characters is considered part of WP's role, as it seems to be, then it is kind of silly to require each character to be covered by secondary sources. The a fact that some newspaper published an article on Signal Flare would not make him more worthy of an article. Kitfoxxe (talk) 15:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment that isn't what I'd expect to see if I was looking for an article on signal flares. I'm not convinced minor Transformers have notability but I'm not going to propose any particular !vote here. MLA (talk) 11:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Redirect, it's a character from a anime series, which is mentioned on List_of_Transformers:_Energon_characters#Omnicons, so that might be appropriate. Mathewignash (talk) 12:47, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:13, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move or Merge Signal Flare should redirect to Flare (pyrotechnic), but this Transformers character can probably be merged somewhere useful if it's not worth keeping as a separate article. Jclemens (talk) 00:27, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That would be Signal flare, not a proper name. Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:01, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per "WP is a database for pop-culture trivia." If it was really an encyclopedia there would be one article on the Transformers telling us what they are and only the very most important fictional characters, like Hamlet and Sherlock Holmes, would have their own articles.Kitfoxxe (talk) 10:21, 16 March 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.