Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metal Gear glossary

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. Arguments based on policy have more weight- this is not a vote count. This was a discussion on this article, not others. Petros471 13:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metal Gear glossary

Unencyclopedic grab-bag of fictional people, places, and things in the Metal Gear series, with no real-world context and no hope for real-world context, no sources and no hope for sources, and no encyclopedic content whatsoever. Was prodded, but was deprodded without comment. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Kbja 06:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 08:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. I can't see this developed into anything useful or informative, so away it goes. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 08:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NOT a dictionary. If there's any content in here that isn't included in the main Metal Gear articles, it could be merged, but this as a whole is not easy to see being cleaned up into a Wikipedia article. — Haeleth Talk 10:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all the above. Doesn't add anything to what we've already got on the Metal Gear series anyway. Thε Halo ^Θ 15:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This is an encylopedia index of objects found in the popular game Metal Gear. There are many other video game titles that have lists very similar to this. If "no real world content" is grounds for deletion, about 75% of all articles should be deleted. Yet, thankfully, the arts and entertainment articles can and do exist on Wikipedia. This article is useful for those who have an interest in the game. --Pinkkeith 21:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Haeleth. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 21:36, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Pinkkeith. Jonny2x4 22:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - wikipedia, is an encyclopedia --T-rex 23:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary (#Wikipedia is not a dictionary) or a video game guide (#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, #4). GRBerry 02:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Per Pinkkeith, no firm rules on glossaries, also I noticed on the Resident Evil page Pinkkeith's comments on all the other articles similar to this and thought I would paraphrase it

You made it very clear that this is a vendetta for you with that statement. Yet, I will answer your inquiry with just one big example: Star Trek. Their index is so large that they broke it down: Characters, Races, All Ships, Lost Ships, Starships classes. Good luck with your quest. --Pinkkeith 03:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Also note the Star Wars articles, many Pokemon articles ect

(The Bread 04:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC))

• Keep per above. Havok (T/C/c) 06:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a video game guide. zephyr2k 15:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - WP is not a fictional universe glossary. Wickethewok 13:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Encyclopedias always have sections that are broken down from the main topic (Like India and India's economy). I don't view it as a game guide, but as an expansion of an article. guitarhero777777 23:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Glossaries are permitted. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per GRBerry. As for the above comments ("This article is useful for those who have an interest in the game."), I say it again and again, we are not writing fan aids, but, rather, comprehensive encyclopedic articles so that non-fans can comprehend the subject matter. Garrett^Talk 08:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Combination 11:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Eusebeus 12:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Pinkkeith and The Bread. In answer to Garrett's comments, this glossary would be extremely useful to non-fans in that it would give them greater and faster comprehension of the various entries. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 16:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

  All of these concepts are easily described whenever they come up. The few exceptions only appear in one game or already have their own articles. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per The Bread. - Twlighter
• Delete - must go as a breach of WP:OR which is policy. BlueValour 22:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

  It's not a breach of WP:OR everything is taken from the games

• Delete. See WP:NOT, and above. +Fin- 16:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Pinkkeith and The Bread. - NokNokCPU 18:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

  User's ninth edit. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per that whole Star Trek, Star Wars, Pokemon stuff. Metal Gear is popular enough that the information shouldn't be erased. However, it should be cleaned up and trimmed for brevity. Inmatarian 23:28, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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.