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. W.marsh 14:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters[edit]

List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This "list" only contains a summary of characters that was copied from the main article, and a list of minor characters whose article was deleted. This article has no canonical info that isn't in other articles, so it does not need to exist. The Placebo Effect 15:57, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Delete Pure listcruft Rackabello 17:02, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as unnecessary. The main article in conjunction with the navigation template already cover this topic quite well. – sgeureka ^t•c 18:07, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The minor character pages are gone, so it no longer has a purpose (as if it even did before.) -Dylan0513 20:34, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per precedent set in first AfD. GlassCobra 20:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Television show and a page for its characters? Seems logical to me. I suggest merging the others. 68.101.22.132 21:36, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I'm not voting, but we have articles for character in each season of a show (i.e. Smallville characters (season 1)), maybe people should concentrate on those first. Seems odd when people want to delete an article which has all the characters in a show, while other shows have different articles for each season's characters. TJ Spyke 23:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • We did have those, but it was decided that a huge list of characters that only appear once was unnecasary and belonged in a seperate Fan Wiki The Placebo Effect 23:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Then I hope you nominate ones like the Smallville articles, or at least suggest a merger because it's silly for some shows to have articles for each season of characters while other shows can't even have one article for characters. TJ Spyke 01:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I'm very hesitant of doing that because thats close to distupting Wikipedia to prove a point The Placebo Effect 01:22, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • That's really only a problem if you don't actually believe that's a better way to do things. Of course, if you are concerned with the propriety, you can simply bring up the idea instead of boldly doing it. Nothing wrong with making a suggestion. 68.101.22.132 02:49, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep I think its a notable show and as such the characters seem to be notable. We should keep or at least merge into main article. Kevin 14:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • All the notable characters are already in the main article. The Placebo Effect 14:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, passed a discussion earlier this year with "keep" and is a good way to organize the characters from the show. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 16:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Things can be nominated more than once, a previous AFD keep doesn't show much relevance here. Instead of instantly writing keep, have a real reason. RobJ1981 16:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• KEEP, MERGE List of Avatar: The Last Airbender major secondary characters into it, and secondarily EDIT Avatar: The Last Airbender#Characters leaving only a list of the main characters article's links with a Main Article template linking to the article being disputed here. This will reduce the size of the main tv show article while allowing for a more expanded, yet summarized article for the characters similar to "List of episodes" articles. The Merge is so that all characters – main, major secondary, and minor – will be found in a single article (this one) to reduce the argument of the article's usefulness as was probably the case with the minor characters' article which was deleted. It would also be more appropriate than listing all of them in the main article. — CobraWiki ^{( jabber | stuff )} 18:23, 20 October 2007 (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.