Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anime character birthdays

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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 Delete. Deathphoenix ʕ 19:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anime character birthdays

I recognize that this article has an inprocess tag. I maintain that the underlying concept of this article is what merits it as WP:LC.. additional reasons follow:

  • The list was created just for the sake of having such a list
  • The list is a violation of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
  • The underly

ing concept is non-notable

  • The list is unmaintainable, despite having the inprocess tag.
  • The list has no content beyond links to other articles, and it would NOT be better implemented as a (self-maintaining) category
  • The list is unencyclopaedic, i.e. it would not be expected to be included in an encyclopaedia.

I am a frequent editor of anime articles. I generally like to keep things. This, however, is not worth keeping. --Kunzite 18:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete Using WP:IAR, not necessary and would be too excessive. Yanksox (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


  • Sorry if I broke any rules. I saw this title in the 'articles to be created' section and thought "well, this I can do". I suppose some of Kunzite's points are valid, though. (Although - and I'm not trying to validate myself or anything - I have seen a LOT of content on Wikipedia that would never be expected to be included in an encyclopaedia; like the entire anime section, for instance) Amedyr 18:18, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
S'ok. I usually try to keep an eye on that list, but I hadn't seen this entry. (We often get requests for articles that already exist. Or article requests for a character that's on a character's list page.) I sometimes like to go get a copy of a manga listed on the requests page (usually from unorthodox souces) and then write the article from that. There's also the seiyu request page. (Though you have to check those for notability too. Someone dumped some video game seiyu with only one role in there--I think I marked most of the suspicious ones.) --Kunzite 01:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
(After my script-driven vote missed the above comment by Amedyr:) Don't worry, Amedyr, there's absolutely no problem with being bold. It's probably useful, though, to examine WP:AfC requests carefully - I estimate some 75% of requests there are not fit for Wikipedia, per WP:NOT. Sandstein 18:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • My obvious vote is a listcrufty delete, but I'm completely with Sandstein. Amedyr, you did absolutely nothing wrong- in fact, you did only the right thing, which was to try to expand WP and make some user(s) happy. Unfortunately, like the majority of requested articles, the article itself isn't encyclopedic. -- Kicking222 18:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Listcruft, as mentioned above. PJM 19:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • 'Strong Delete. Per above. - Kookykman|(t)e
  • Delete. Good grief! -- Necrothesp 21:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and cosign on all the sentiment towards Amedyr. :) Danny Lilithborne 22:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete regretfully. Or possibly copy the contents to the author's page? Hopefully the creator has a copy. --Starionwolf 05:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, I don't have a copy, but I do have the link of a site that quite possibly has all the information that would be added here (it's the first of the 'Reference' links). And thank you everybody for the kind words! I'll keep on being bold (and hopefully not causing this much polemic next time) ;) Amedyr 11:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete CPAScott 19:52, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as per nomination. Jgamekeeper 11:24, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I love collecting trivia like anime character birthdates or blood types, but it's fancruft and not appropriate to Wikipedia. Props to Amedyr though for being bold and contributing. - CNichols 01:37, 21 June 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.