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 for the time being, but the best course of action here is to clean up List of The Land Before Time characters. Much of the information in each character's article is either trivial or fails WP:NOT#PLOT, and a reasonable length article could be compiled from the relevant information in each of these articles. I will re-visit these articles in a month or so and unless they have gained real-world RS to prove notability, will redirect them to the characters article.BLACKKITE 15:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Littlefoot[edit]

Fails WP:WAF and WP:NOT#PLOT. There is no current assertion for dealing with the in-universe material which provide a combination of unnecessary detailed plot information resulting in numerous instances of trivia and/or fan speculation. I would recommend cleaning up the current elaborate character lists (characters, families, villains), expand them the right way, then cite its sources with real world information.

I am also nominating the following related pages:

« ₣ullMetal ₣alcon » 23:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all as fancruft, trivia, and just generally indiscriminate info. I agree with the nominator here, the existing character lists should be cleaned up instead. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 23:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and source. Well-known characters in a well-received series of videos. They have action figures. Corvus cornix_talk 23:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really think that these characters can all be sourced in reliable sources? I really really doubt it. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't any other character from a 13-edition movie series, action figures and video games be notable? Corvus cornix_talk 00:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes if real world information to establish notability is present or they're rather lengthy for merging. « ₣ullMetal ₣alcon » 00:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I and many other people would agree that these articles, although could stand for improvement, are vital points of information to the Wikipedia. The Land Before Time franchise is a multi-million dollar opperation, so I think it is safe to assume that this is a popular article. user 14:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions. —Quasirandom (talk) 00:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Clean up, Do not delete I think it is absurd that you would get rid of these articles! Wikipedia is about information on subjects, and the Land Before Time is a popular franchise, and therefor is important to wikipedia repitoire of articles. I do agree, the articles could be improved, but these are important and should not be so blatantly deleted as an overall catagory.

Annonymous 16:52 19 December 2007

Comment. For some reason, Bowser Jr. Nutt has tried to remove this discussion from the log. [1]. Who knows why. I have restored it. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 21:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? I didn't delete that article. Only deleted the part I was going to write down for each segment. If I did, I appologise for it was unintentional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bowser Jr. Nutt (talk • contribs) 22:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in mind this is not a vote, but it is advised that the edit history be checked for this page. « ₣ullMetal ₣alcon » 22:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up, but do not delete. I vote for keeping the character articles, but cleaning up and expanding them. There's no less reason for these articles to exist than there is for there to be articles devoted to other fictional characters.

On the subject of getting citations for these articles, surely the official website and DVD extra features could be used?

K00bine (talk) 06:53, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this article requires real world context and for that it would need something besides primary sources. See WP:Plot and WP:RS. So in your short no it can not use just the official website and DVD as sources. Ridernyc (talk) 11:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep and cleanup. Same for all the other articles you nominated. cf38^talk 21:25, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all, notable. List of characters is long enough, and the major characters should have more extended coverage. Everyking (talk) 08:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

notability is not the issue real context is. Ridernyc (talk) 11:24, 24 December 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.