Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Characters in Guitar Hero

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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 delete. Singularity 06:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Characters in Guitar Hero

Characters in Guitar Hero (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

This article is not needed. The games do not play differently with different characters, and they each only have a few sentences of backstory. All that is required is the small amount of info that is already in some of the current game articles. Drat (Talk) 10:51, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep: I'll admit there isn't much meat to the article, however for what it's worth, the games feature the very notable Tom Morello and Slash as characters. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 13:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Change to Delete - after reviewing the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock the information on Slash and company could probably be expanded. But, no need for a separate article.AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 15:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Just as a comment, the existence of Slash and Tom as playable characters are well documented at Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, so we would not be losing coverage of them if this list was deleted. --MASEM 15:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions. —Pixelface (talk) 13:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, characters from a notable video game franchise. Could be merged into Guitar Hero (series) if necessary. --Pixelface (talk) 13:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete with possible Merge into Guitar Hero (series), the "characters" in the game have no story or plot that is tied with them, and the selection of which character the player uses in the game makes no impact outside of visual changes to how the game's played. The games themselves only contain 3 to 4 sentences for each character at most between in-game and manual. Additionally descriptions are presently WP:OR - the game never calls out which genre the characters represent. If necessary, knowing which characters are in what, a table can be made in the Guitar Hero (series) game to present this, even though this information is already in the separate game articles. --MASEM 14:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Masem. Percy Snoodle (talk) 15:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge per Masem. I also suggest that when adding it to Guitar Hero (series) that the usage of the minor characters (those that are primarily found in most or all of the games in the series) be kept to a minimum. For example, note that Axel Steel is in every game in the series, but that Pandora was only in this, this, and this. If written well enough, this could fit as a paragraph with the common gameplay elements section (but strongly noting that it is only a visual effect on gameplay). Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 16:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Again, my thought here would be a simple table, like done for characters in Super Smash Bros. - maybe with one box for a brief description, and maybe collapsable. --MASEM 16:34, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, games that are not story-focused do not need character lists.User:Krator (t c) 16:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Masem and Krator. Additionally, no merge, as all notable information can be found in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock in the Character Cast section.Gazimoff (talk) 17:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per others' arguments above; it does not seem that character descriptions are essential to the encyclopedic article about the games. At most, names could be identified at the series article, like what characters were in the first one, then who joined in the second then third. Anything more doesn't add much encyclopedic value, in my opinion. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Comment: When I said merge, I was referring to what you just said. In other words, just mention in the series article in a brief paragraph what characters were in the first one, then who joined in the second then third as you put it. Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 02:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete or add to guitar hero. Mm40 (talk) 19:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - character articles unnecessary when the games are not story oriented at all. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 10:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete GH is not a character-orientated series, bar the appearances of Slash and KISS guy, who can be mentioned on the appropriate game article. Covering characters in one form or another is all well and good, but like every aspect of a subject their coverage has to be proportional. Someoneanother 03:02, 25 March 2008 (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.