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 delete. — Edokter • Talk • 23:31, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Spider Rider characters[edit]

Excessive and unencyclopedic detail, completely in-universe. No apparent signficance outside the book and anime itself. We already have an article on the subject of Spider Riders. Tony Sidaway 04:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator. Fee Fi Foe Fum 07:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but merge this list with Spider Riders#Cast and Spider Riders#Japanese Cast (which means to either merge this list into the main article or merge main article sections into this list). Voilà, encyclopedic list. (I don't know if a little bit of trimming will help here also, but then that's for cleanup, not for AfD.) – sgeureka ^t•c 08:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's certainly a plausible suggestion, and normally I would just get on and merge. But the reason I don't think it would work here is that the article is already reasonably adequate (we don't need to know all of the characters to understand that the novels, anime and manga are about children who ride huge spiders under the earth in a war against mutant insects). Moreover this article, at around 35000 characters, is already ridiculously large, and twice the size of the main article. Adding this information would hopelessly unbalance the parent article. Moreover the content of this article, which I urge you to read, is largely opinions such as "She might also have a romantic relationship with Hunter too." The article might well benefit from the addition of brief plot summaries, which would introduce the characters, where relevant, in context, but this article isn't a good start, and would be likely to be a net drain on resources if content from it were added to the article. --Tony Sidaway 16:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, complete lack of references. Open to merging per Sgeureka if sources are cited. Stifle (talk) 20:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No sources. The article Spider Riders already provides enough detail on this topic, though in my view it needs trimming and removal of many unsourced statements. If only one article is to be kept, then Spider Riders is the more logical choice. EdJohnston 17:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions. —User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:46, 7 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.