Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rare Candy

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was merge and redirect to Pokemon or some derivative page. ugen64 21:30, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rare Candy

With 815 hits on Google [1], what makes "rare candy" notable and encyclopedic? Is Google even remotely relevant to the question of notability? What if Google did not exist, how then would we determine if this was worthy of inclusion? --GRider\^talk 17:53, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep as before, though someone suggested merging all these into a single article in the previous VfD of Metal Box, and that might be the best solution. Xezbeth 18:20, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
• See Super_Mario_Bros._3 - Merge all items related to the same game into one article for easy comparison. In this case, that would be both the Pokemon video games. Radiant! 20:36, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or keep. If a "cruft" item has a large number of google hits, that might be an additional argument for a separate article. Kappa 22:21, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, gamecruft. Wyss 22:22, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge at best or just delete and be done with it. Not only is the information insignificant except as a minor footnote to Pokemon, the title is misleading. At first glance I'd have thought Rare Candy was about some rare and exotic sorts of (real) candies. Arkyan 02:08, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, common gamecruft. ComCat 04:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not encyclopaedic, pokecruft. Megan1967 06:52, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I fully understand why someone wants to purge Wikipedia out of all or most of the Pokémon material. Sadly, these articles are a part of the much too large poké-universe, and thus they are notable. Sjakkalle 08:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:52, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Trim, merge, and redirect, as above. -R. fiend 18:36, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Pokemon. Andre (talk) 23:00, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep-- There are a lot of articles just like this one that have never undergone VfD. 67.81.191.226; 09:38, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

They should, then. Wyss 00:10, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete or merge. I agree that "articles just like this one that have never undergone VfD" should all be deleted or merged. Should there be seperate articles for each space on the Monopoly board? How about each person in the boardgame Clue? Perhaps an article for every card in a deck of cards? ("three of spades" has 926 Google hits). Srcastic 07:27, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

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