Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beyblade

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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 was snowball keep. No delete votes. There is also no precedent for deleting articles about TV shows that ran for three seasons all over the world. Non-admin closure. – sgeureka t•c 16:24, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beyblade

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Non notable show, the only links I can find at to sites selling toys, has no awards that I can find, finished it's only season about 7 years ago, non-encyclopaedic, just being a TV show should not automatically make it notable, the article is very poor and written heavily "in-universe" using language only someone who had seen the show would know about. Has had a no citations tag up for 8 months with no improvement on the article.Macktheknifeau 10:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep - TV series shown in 20 countries, kind of creates it's own notability, don't ya think? digitalemotion 11:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Have you read the whole article and the template below it? It seems to have three seasons, games in different video consoles, a movie based on it, a toy line, and a trading card game. A google search turns up [1] 1,850,000 hits. It seems that Category:Beyblade needs merge/delete fixes though.--Lenticel (talk) 11:24, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Badly written it may be, but "non-notable" it certainly isn't. Having three seasons (not one) in Japan, being broadcast in other countries worldwide, and leading to a movie spin-off sounds notable to me. --DAJF 11:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Notable for being shown in many countries. I think it was on Irish TV as recently as last year, as were the toy adverts. Bláthnaid 12:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. I remember that this manga series, and toy collection gained attention in Norwegian media, although not of the positive type. (Sorry, only in Norwegian) Media attention of this nature which is far away from Japan indicates that the series as a whole is notable. (The fact that I deleted the Beyblade article on the Norwegian Wikipedia was due to that article being infantile nonsense and not a serious article, the article on this Wikipedia is acceptable enough.) Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Seems more than notable enough to me to stay.Alberon 12:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Its not that bad; although it lacks polish, the article is fine overall. --Zacharycrimsonwolf 14:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep It is notable enough for its own article, due to it being shown in many countries, and due to the success of the toys to accompany it. Mr_pand 14:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr pand (talk • contribs)
  • Keep. I guess Mack missed those years where Beyblade was stupid popular among the kiddos. --136.223.3.130 14:49, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep I love the smell of pointiness in the morning. JuJube 15:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Beyblade has manga, anime, game and toy series which I think qualifies it to be notable. Certainly it is no less notable than any other manga, anime or game series. At worst the article does need some improvement but that is hardly a reason for deletion. I was surprised to see the nomination. Jojas 15:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Meets the "heard of it before seeing the Wikipedia article" test. Just rename the "external links" section to "references" and Bob's your uncle. - Smerdis of Tlön 15:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Just walk down any toy aisle. EndlessDan 16:08, 7 November 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.