Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Delinquent Road Hazards

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. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 16:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Delinquent Road Hazards

For starters, the concept of "The Delinquent Road Hazards" referring to a group of characters from the motion picture Cars is a neologism and is unverifiable by reliable sources. This is actually explicitly stated in the article:
"They are not actually referred to as the "Delinquent Road Hazards" in the film. The name has actually come from fans of the film, taken from the title of a race in the subsequent game, which introduces them, & from what Sheriff calls Lightning McQueen when instructing Mater to tow him to the courthouse for trial. This name is included in this article for the sake of identification."
A Google search on the term returns no reliably sourced results ignoring results referring to the videogame and wikipedia mirrors. The rest of the article is chock full of unverifiable original research. A few examples:

• Wingo is a modified 2000 Nissan Silvia S15" - Where is this stated in any movie or game? Google returns no reliable sources on this. This goes for all the "model" information in this article.
• While some believe that he lightly parodies the import scene, others believe that he lampoons rice burners - Unsourced original research.
• Some must wonder what a muscle car is doing in a gang of imports; it could be related to the mix of tuner cars & classic muscle cars & shown in the movie "The Fast and the Furious". - Unsourced original research.
  

Normally I would advocate cleanup of the original research, but in this particular case, if you removed all the WP:OR, what you'd have left is information on the film and video games that should be at those respective articles, all at a namespace that is unverifiable in reference to this grouping of characters from the film. Each of these characters could have their own seperate article, but having one overall article so full of original research at a namespace that is a neologism is simply not the right way to do this. Delete.--Isotope23 19:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep-Disputes like this just don't justify deletion.Hondasaregood 20:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• The problem isn't a dispute. The problem is that this article fails WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:NEO. That justifies deletion in my opinion.--Isotope23 20:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I believe the source on the car types is from the toys, but I'm not sure. Could be from somewhere else. Don't know. However, I don't think these three characters need have their own article. I'd say one for Characters in Cars would be more appropriate. Given the questions raised here though, I can't recommend a merge. Mister.Manticore 21:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I hope that disputes as to impossibility of meeting a core policy justify deletion... -Amarkov ^blah_edits 23:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as WP:OR and failing WP:FICTION. Perhaps an eventual merge into a list of minor characters in the Cars universe article? — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 20:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete That's alot of OR. Should be covered in an omnibus article on Car characters per above comments. Eluchil404 09:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• I herewith maintain that the page for The Delinquent Road Hazards should NOT be deleted. While I agree that information on each vehicle (viz., DJ, Wingo, Snot Rod, Boost, etc.) does not warrant individual entries, this one article is THE SOLITARY, yet primary source of information on that whole group of characters, which is priceless. Even just having a place for the JPEG photos of these cars argues for the retention of this article. Where else would the inquiring mind find useful information on these vehicles were it not for Wikipedia's diligence in creating this article in the first place? Please do not flush this valuable information into cyberspace oblivion!!!! We NEED this article to REMAIN in the cache of information on the CARS movie, as provided by Wikipedia! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, KEEP ALL YOUR GOOD WORK, AND DO NOT DELETE THE ARTICLE ... PLEASE!

  Rpaltza 23:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)rpaltza

  • Wikipedia is most explicitly not supposed to be the sole source of information. That is a reason for deletion. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 00:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
    • I think that Rpaltza meant the only place on wikipedia. I would agree that these characters should be covered but feel that the current article has too much original research to be worth merging into a better place. Eluchil404 04:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Right and that was my original reasoning for the AfD. This article is so far outside of what is acceptable as an article that it would be better to have a Characters in Cars article covering this. The reason I didn't suggest merge is because there is almost nothing verifiable to merge in the existing article.--Isotope23 14:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Um... that's an odd interpretation of WP:AGF. It's very possible that he thinks, in good faith, that Wikipedia is a place to put things which are nowhere else. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 15:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Weak delete, the cars only really appear in one scene. oTHErONE _(Contribs) 13:25, 4 January 2007 (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.