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The result was keep. czar 05:25, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of mascots[edit]

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Article has become a cruft magnet littered with some rather questionable entries (most of which were removed here). Electric Burst^{(Electron firings)}_(Zaps) 02:46, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 09:24, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 09:24, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...and? You could have made that comment on the list's talk page. I don't see a deletion argument, and AFD is WP:NOTCLEANUP. postdlf (talk) 15:32, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Let's just remove the page and bring back the original list of advertising mascots. The article itself is not even needed and should just be protected to prevent vandalisam.66.87.73.186 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:47, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Music1201 ^talk 14:46, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this list clearly has some issues, but that isn't grounds for deletion.--Prisencolin (talk) 16:13, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but we need to enforce some well defined inclusion criteria to keep the cruft out. I have no problem with this covering all sorts of mascots (advertising, sporting, whatever) so long as all the entries are notable as mascots. I'd suggest a purge of red links and of any entries that lack a link to an article who's primary subject is either described as being a "mascot" (or a completely uncontroversial synonym of "mascot") or is a list article unambiguously about mascots. Links to an article about the entity with a mascot might be allowable if the mascot has a substantial section within that article but definitely not for ones with passing mentions. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep i can see the list being useful if all mascots without pages and/or no significance are cut. This needs a major reorganization. News Team Assemble!^[talk?] 11:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Useful blue-link populated list. Does it need editorial TLC? Hell, yeah. Carrite (talk) 01:33, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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