Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minor characters in Morrowind

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 of the debate was keep. Mailer Diablo 18:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minor characters in Morrowind

Delete This page reads more like a walkthrough than an encyclopedia article. The Soul Reaver 12:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep We'd all prefer that the creators of the page had given their attentions to something of a "core" encyclopedic nature, I guess, but this is clearly of interest to any player of the game, and the main article for the game is already too large to contain it. Some of the how-to info should be stripped. Bobby P. Smith Sr. Jr. 13:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP is not an indiscriminate collection of information; point 8 refers. (aeropagitica)  13:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup and keep In the light of other comments and a review of the material, I think that removing the how-to parts of the article would be an efficient compromise.  (aeropagitica)  18:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • There is some how-to stuff, but it's a minority portion of the article content, I think Bobby P. Smith Sr. Jr. 13:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep As Bobby Smith says above, the majority of the article is not a walkthrough, but contains legitimate content. The fact that part of the article contains walkthrough content is a reason for cleanup, not deletion. --Xyzzyplugh 14:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Useful character list from a very notable game. Some of the how-to material should go, but that's not a reason for deletion of the whole thing. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep & some cleanup. Better an all-encompassing article/list than having articles spring into existence for each one (as such, like one of the lists found at Minor characters in Star Wars). Scoo 15:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The game might be notable, but the characters themselves aren't, IMHO. Waggers 16:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The content of Wikipedia will always reflect what readers want to write about. Articles like this exist in large measure so that each of these minor characters does not end up having a separate article. This is probably not what the nominator or deleters here want. Smerdis of Tlön 16:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Smerdis of Tlön Bhoeble 17:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup to read more like an encyclopedia article. There's plenty of precedent for 'list of minor character' articles. --InShaneee 21:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Starblind. --Fuzzie (talk) 22:56, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Some characters from other games have their personal pages in the main namespace, this is just a common one for all. I've started the cleanup of nonnecessary how-tos. CP/M 05:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Most of them are reduced to minimum by now, though article also needs to be more uniform. I'm working on it. CP/M 23:11, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Complete agreement with Xyzzyplugh . Johnpf 00:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as I just found this article while searching for the content contained within. If useful to no one else, it's helped me. Jeffool 06:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep needs to be cleaned up not deleted. Dv82matt 03:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment we set a precedent that if the underlying game, show, movie, book, etc., is notable so is a list of its "minor characters". Get ready! Carlossuarez46 00:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Is this really the first time this kind of thing has occured such that it could be called precedent setting? I mean there are tons of articles on video game characters. Anyway I think it's fair to say that Wikipedia has a somewhat broader scope than other encyclopedias. Dv82matt 02:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Now that I think about it the article should probably be renamed. Morrowind is a huge game with over 1000 characters and the article only lists a few of the most significant ones. Maybe it should simply be called "Characters in Morrowind" or maybe "Notable characters in Morrowind". Dv82matt 02:38, 22 March 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.