Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Octorok

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 merge summarized content into Enemies in The Legend of Zelda series and delete the rest. These articles fail many of the criteria at WP:FICT, and Wikipedia is not a guide to all things Zelda (or any other game or fictional work). I've tried to incorporate a representative piece of each article into the more general Enemies one; editors who would like access to the deleted material for the purpose of doing a more extensive rewrite may contact me on my talk page. As a side note, the material seems to have been preserved at http://egamia.com/wiki/ . Tijuana Brass (talk) 07:52, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This applies to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Octorok, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moblin, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gohma, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lizalfos, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poe (The Legend of Zelda), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stalfos and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wizzrobe.

[edit] Octorok

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The article is an in-universe regurgitation of the plot and character sections of several Legend of Zelda game articles and has no notability of its own. As such, it is pure duplication in an unencyclopedic way. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:57, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep Not a very helpful vote and I apologize for that, but I want to mention that the term "Octorok" is burned forever into my subconscious by that horrible rap music commercial they ran for Zelda in the '80s; unlike most in-universe Zelda content on WP, this one seems to be close to the core of the "plot". --- tqbf 18:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC) --- abstain --- i cannot trust that my subconscious hasn't been programmed to betray me on this, and as such I recuse myself. --- tqbf 21:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

You are absolutely right on both counts; that commerical is burned into my memory, and the extent of this articles notability is its use in an obscure 80's rapping video game commercial. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:10, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

• Transwikied and Delete or Redirect moved to the Encyclopedia Gamia edit the article here --09:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cs california (talk • contribs)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someone another (talk) 12:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:FICT for fictional characters. Axem Titanium (talk) 15:32, 24 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.