Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deaths in the Harry Potter series

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 no consensus; keep. Johnleemk | Talk 11:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deaths in the Harry Potter series

This article seems a little ridiculous when each individual book already has a plot summary in its article. Do we really need a page exclusively for this? Considering this type of page isn't made for every other important book series, this seems like a case of fans going a little too far. Meekohi 19:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Fannish. I know what it means to be a fan, but we have to reel them in.--Esprit15d 19:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or weak keep Never read a single Potter book and don't care to, but these deaths have been unescapable: I've read about them in Time magazine, and certainly the Internet trolls like to spoil the books with them. Verifiable. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 19:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
  • If kept, I will try to find those articles and will cite them here to give it a touch more validity. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 19:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom. --DelftUser 20:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Meekohi 20:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete Segv11 ^{(talk/contribs)} 20:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom. I've read the books, and these deaths are as big as CanadianCaesar says, but it definitely does not deserve its own specific, fan-cruft article. -Rebelguys2 22:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Useful summary. A lot harder to extract from the articles about each book. Harry Potter is the most prominent book series there is. Calsicol 22:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The deaths are so integral to the plot (and hype) on Harry. I think this is a useful compendium. MKaiserman 22:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep Delete. Some of the deaths are notable to the plot and hype (Dumbledore, Sirius), but a list of every character who gets knocked off... is that really necessary? -- Saberwyn - The Zoids Expansion Project 23:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as fancruft -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 02:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Each book already has its own plot summary, which would include all notable deaths. -Sean Curtin 04:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Important part of the Harry Potter series. I cannot see why we can't have these events listed together in one article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Sjakkalle. --Terence Ong ^Talk 14:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete. Doesn't seem to be something that many people are going to look for. Stifle 00:44, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete. Redundant to the plot summaries in the book articles. This is specialized enough that it will only be useful for fans, and there should be plenty of fan discussions iut there already. Justin Eiler 00:50, 14 January 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.