Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Warriors characters

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The result was delete. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:34, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of The Warriors characters

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Unnecessary as a stand-alone article. All of the notable characters can, and are, discussed at the articles for the film and the video game. I hacked this down to the bare bones after it was bloated with in-universe details about minor characters. But, in this state, the article is superfluous. The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 16:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 19:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - per TheOldJacobite above. Wikipedia has too many useless "list of character" pages which firmly belong on fan sites. In the alternative, a single film and videogame does not warrant a "list of characters" page. - Fantr (talk) 19:19, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, will never be anything more than a plot resource, no character from the film is individually culturally significant or notable except potentially bottles-on-fingers-clanking guy, and its completely unnecessary for a single film with an attached game. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's hard to imagine how this can "never be anything more than a plot resource", because as it currently stands, it has almost no plot and recounts the voice actors--real world impact--who portrayed the characters. Furthermore, contra Darkwarriorblake is exactly wrong: because these characters appear in a notable videogame and a notable film, there is no single merge target for them. The nominator demonstrated that the serious issues could be fixed by the normal editing process. All of the above opinions are non-policy-based reasons for deletion, but the reason for retention is simple and direct: Character lists do not require individual notability, because the works (here there are two, many other lists have substantially more) from which they are taken are notable, and the list articles serve as redirect targets and/or to forestall individual articles on clearly non-notable fictional characters. Jclemens (talk) 20:49, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Most films these days have a computer game spin-off featuring characters from the movie, but generally we don't have a separate character list for them or even need one, since obviously there is a huge overlap between the game and the film it is based on. It's not like the List of Star Wars characters which is essentially a character index to a huge array of characters across an expanded universe. The nominator addressed the most serious excesses of the article, but he is unable to address the main issue in that it largely replicates a list already found at two other articles. Betty Logan (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per TOJ and Fantr. The list is redundant to the articles for the film and game. MarnetteD | Talk 22:49, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I have often supported such lists, when they contain useful information supplementary to the main article. This one does not do. DGG ( talk ) 01:34, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I think that this list of characters is underwhelming considered how small the so-called franchise is—the film and two video games, the latter apparently not very well-known. In my research of the topic, though, I found this book called Game On, Hollywood!: Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema with a relevant chapter: "Playing (in) the city: The Warriors and images of urban disorder". I'm not sure if there is anything else like that out there, but if there are additional references, I would not be opposed to an article The Warriors (franchise) that would have a "List of characters" section among other sections. Erik (talk | contribs) 11:54, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete OMG! This is so, like, not a fansite! Our encyclopedia does not need a list of everything. Let's merge the character list into the film's page and let the video game article reference that (assuming they are both notable). Dusty|💬|You can help! 17:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:GAMECRUFT on the video game side, WP:CASTLIST on the film side, and on both: an WP:INDISCRIMINATE collection of data (NOTIMDB, etc.). The useful parts of this list can be worked into the respective articles. czar · · 02:45, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as overdoing it. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C • Sign AAPT) 00:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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