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. per WP:SNOW (non-admin) - Milks F'avorite Cookie 22:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Characters of Final Fantasy III (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

This article a) has no real-world context and b) does not give any hint to reliable independent sources. The topic seems to fail WP:N. The only source given is another Wiki. There are two sections which were supposed to contain sourcable real-world information, but they remained empty; there have been no recent additions except vandalism. B. Wolterding (talk) 20:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep A "Characters of" article on something so clearly notable is quite reasonable (and common practice). The "death by tagging" probably isn't helping. Hobit (talk) 01:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Article needs some major improvement, but the "characters of" are a good alternative to having articles for each individual character (which would eventually happen at least once). --NickPenguin_(contribs) 02:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and improve. Final Fantasy series is clearly notable, and merits having a "Characters of" article. The respective WikiProject should push for a cleanup, but it shouldn't be deleted. JuJube (talk) 03:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The characters'data needs own article, not merge in the game's article (or many articles about each character: Wikipedia is not FF Wikia). Sometimes people mistakes Afd for clean-up. If this article is not good, wikify it, but deletion is not solution. Zero Kitsune (talk) 03:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It is a supporting article for what is clearly a notable game, and aids in giving comprehensive coverage. The number of maintenance templates is excessive. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's not the number of templates that is excessive, it's the number of problems. --B. Wolterding (talk) 07:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • If there are too many issues there exists a template called ((articleissues)) which can summarize the problem without forcing the reader to wade through a jungle of templates before getting to the article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but Cleanup - I think this one may have fallen under the radar of Wikipedia:WikiProject Final Fantasy. Looking at the series box on the article, the character articles for VI onwards are all heavily cited, demonstrating that work is being undertaken to improve these articles. If it isn't going against the terms of WP:CANVAS it may be appropriate to leave a note for them on the project's talk page. I know they're fairly active and should be able to address concerns quickly. Many thanks!--Gazimoff (talk) 22:07, 3 April 2008 (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.