Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skull Kid (Twilight Princess)

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The result of the debate was Delete Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 00:34, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Skull Kid (Twilight Princess)

Unencyclopedic article about a probably small, completely unconfirmed part of a video game which has not even been released. In addition, most of the information is speculative or erroneous. WikidSmaht (talk) 06:26, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Also want to add a comment which I thought might be too POV to put in the official reason: It's not worth a merge and redirect because the info is bad and no one is going to randomly type this title into the address bar. WikidSmaht (talk) 06:26, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. I added a link to it from the The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess page, perhaps that makes it worth having? Or the content could be merged onto that page. Astrokey44 11:09, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I had already deleted a link like that because the article was poorly written and non-notable. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete/merge. This page is about a minor character in a game that isn't out. For all we know, the Skull Kid will be cut from the game. If there's anything good on the page, put in on TP's page, but otherwise, just straight up delete it yo. --Carl 12:47, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment This reads like the, uh, thing in question has already appeared in earlier Zelda games. Still seems rather unremarkable though. Sabine's Sunbird 01:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • It has. But they were minor enemies in OoT and the featured one in MM already has a nice entry on that game's character page. This page is also titled and written to talk about it in the context of TP, in which context it's non-notable. Plus a bunch of the info regarding the previous games is bad. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the update. Delete it then, no need to merege info anywhere. Sabine's Sunbird 02:18, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep To point out to people: it has been confirmed in a trailer that there will be a skull kid, as featured in the picture. However, as for what we know right now, this new Skull Kid could be a main character. If you'd like, put a "subject to change" notice. But until it is clear if Skull Kid will be a main character, this will help understand the new one with the information we have at our disposal. 24.21.191.65 05:26, 18 September 2005 (UTC) [This anonymous comment/vote is from the page author.]
  • Dude, log in to vote on the AfDs for your pages. The others deserve to know that you're the author, and therefore biased. Plus, a trailer isn't confirmation of anything, with nothing official said, that could change before the release. You can't create these unencyclopedic pages with no basis for it! -- WikidSmaht (talk) 09:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask characters#Skull Kid. -Sean Curtin 03:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Two problems with that. A) The title has no merit. No one who understands Wikipedia is going to type "Skull Kid (Twilight Princess)" any more than they would type "Skull Kid (Ocarina of Time)". There's nothing to suggest that it's a major character, most people don't even know it's present. B)If this skull kid does appear, it's likely to be unrelated to the one in Majora's Mask. There's more than one skull kid, they were minor enemies/characters in OoT. So the redirect you suggest would be misleading. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 09:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
    • A redirect can only hurt Wikipedia if it should redirect somewhere else. More redirects mean more people get to where they expected to get to. Merge and redirect ··gracefool |☺ 17:26, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• "until it is clear if Skull Kid will be a main character," or until some mass-media controversy makes this question encyclopedically significant, the WP:NOT a crystal ball policy applies. Userfy to a Temp page, or else merge and redirect as previous voter suggests. Barno 05:36, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Userfy? Oh, you mean like, he puts it in a subpage of his user page? I explained above why the merge and redirect would be inappropriate. -- WikidSmaht (talk) 09:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Even after Twilight Princess is released, there's no reason why information about the Skull Kid coulndn't go into the TP article. --Pagrashtak 02:52, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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