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The result was delete. What I wrote in closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dungeons & Dragons gnome deities applies here as well. Sandstein 12:12, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of Dragonlance deities[edit]

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No evidence this passes WP:GNG/WP:NFICTION/WP:LISTN. See also arguments presented in related, and already ended with 'delete', Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Forgotten Realms deities _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:13, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:13, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:13, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or selective merge to Dragonlance#World. BOZ (talk) 12:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:ALLPLOT and failure of WP:LISTN, same as the other deity lists. Entirely a summary of the game's fictional lore._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 14:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fantasy-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I have been unable to find any reliable, secondary sources discussing this grouping in any meaningful way, causing it to fail WP:LISTN. I was going to go with the selective merge as suggested by BOZ above, but looking at the target section, the bit of information that I would have suggested merging there is already present, negating the need to do so. Rorshacma (talk) 19:38, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not notable as a group. No rationale for it to be a valid fork article. TTN (talk) 23:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP or MERGE to List of Dragonlance characters. The deities in this book are significant characters who do interact with the rest of the characters in some of the books. The main article says there are over 190 novels now. Dream Focus 12:47, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Perfectly valid list of elements central to a significant fictional setting. This recent swathe of attempted deletions of articles on fantasy and science fiction topics makes me uncomfortable, as it suggests that some editors are having fun getting rid of valid content, which is certainly not what Wikipedia is all about. We delete rubbish and very minority interest material. We do not usually delete material that is central to major literary works and games. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:50, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per WP:LISTPURP and WP:CLN (although I would not object to a severe copyedit of the article to reduce the size and degree of in-game content).Vulcan's Forge (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notability for the list is neither established or inherited. CLN in no way mandates lists, so I’m really not sure why people are trying to bandwagon that as a thing. The only thing it defends is an argument that a category/list should be deleted because a list/category already exists. Even if it did, this category in particular is ready to be upmerged to the character category anyway due to its two articles makeup. TTN (talk) 09:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The usual fancruft. Fails GNG/NFICTION/LISTN.Kacper IV (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. I admit I'm a little nervous about deleting these lists; I suspect there will be some secondary sources out there on the deities individually, and, together, justify the list as a whole. Absent evidence of those sources, I support a merge, as above. Josh Milburn (talk) 23:26, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as WP:FANCRUFT. Ajf773 (talk) 22:22, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Regarding the OTHERAFDsEXIST comment in the original nomination, please note that the example provided has been at WP:DRV since shortly after this AFD started, and that a short while ago Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dungeons & Dragons halfling deities was closed as "merge", so therefore if this discussion does not end in a "keep" or "no consensus", I submit that my merge suggestion is a very reasonable WP:ATD outcome. BOZ (talk) 03:19, 10 December 2019 (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.