Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in Marvel Comics who can fly

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 no consensus. –MuZemike 01:30, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of characters in Marvel Comics who can fly

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This list is a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization analagous to "People from ethnic/cultural/religious group X employed by organization Y" or "Restaurants specializing in food type X in city Y". There are already seventy other lists of Marvel Comics characters; there is no need to recapitulate on another list all the ones who happen to be able to fly. Neelix (talk) 16:42, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep I don't see why not. If it is of interested to some people to re-categorize Marvel characters and list the ones who can fly, then make it 71. If this is one is to be deleted, then why not re-think 69 of the existing 70, as anything but the full list of marvel characters would be a recapitulation. Raisescale (talk) 20:08, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep no reason given for deletion, since flying is not a cross-categorization, but a frequent element of superheroic powers. Jclemens (talk) 21:04, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per nom, this is an encyclopaedic cross-categorization. It's taking all members of the set Marvel Comics caracters and all members of the set fictional characters who can fly and just listing members of the intersection (if we imagine a Venn diagram. Flying in Marvel Comics isn't an encyclopaedic topic, and thus this is a pure WP:NOTDIR violation. Claritas § 21:13, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Don't bet too much on that latter. At least one other encyclopaedia, ISBN 9780313329517, has an entry that is specifically about flight in science fiction and fantasy, that includes amongst others superheroes with the power of flight. Uncle G (talk) 23:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You're fundamentally misunderstanding the idea of and criteria for "non-encyclopedic cross categorization." If you'll look at the examples you're linking to, they are of intersections of unrelated things. Superheroes and flight are far from unrelated. The above entry by Uncle G just reinforces that. Jclemens (talk) 23:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note that this article resulted from the "listify" consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 October 28#Category:Anime and manga characters who can fly. Uncle G (talk) 23:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Just as long as no one takes the deletion of this list somehow as a mandate to recreate the category. The arguments for its unsuitability here as a list make it doubly unsuitable as a category. postdlf (talk) 15:41, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- nonencyclopedic cross-categorization. As Claritas points out, Flying in Marvel Comics is not a topic that an encyclopedia should cover and it performs no useful navigational purpose either. It's way too broad for that. You might as well start List of characters in Marvel Comics who have black hair or List of characters in Marvel Comics who have blood type A+. Reyk _YO! 02:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the last consensus regarding Marvel characters with flight ended in listifying them. Really, there isn't an urgent need in deleting the article. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 00:07, 1 July 2010 (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.