Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Chambers

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 Keep. A merger can be pursued on the talk page. Eluchil404 (talk) 03:33, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rebecca Chambers

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Plot summary for a non-notable character from Resident evil. nothing but primary sources and games guides. No real world context. Another article that has had the tags repeatedly removed from with no improvement. Ridernyc (talk) 00:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Central character in a game and novels of the notable Resident Evil franchise, important supporting character in others. Remvoal of tags is not grounds for deletion. Edward321 (talk) 04:25, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Article has improved over the weekend to comply with WP:OR and WP:WAF; none of the previous tags really apply. The article however, does need more expansion to include more real universe information. --ShadowJester07 ► Talk 04:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
• KEEP per the above 2 responses. -- ZeroGiga (Contact) 01:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as notable video game character in a notable series of games. As noted, more information has been added. 23skidoo (talk) 15:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Will all the keeps please show some sourcing for their claims. It's easy to say it's harder to do. Ridernyc (talk) 05:19, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someoneanother 11:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to List of Resident Evil characters unless some solid out-of-universe information is dug up from reliable secondary sources. The one cited reference goes through a line of blurb pages until it hits a dead end, hardly reliable. The other sources are in-universe and don't establish the character's notability as a standalone article. I've had a look for sources and found none. Someoneanother 15:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Main character is significant to create an article on --Cs california (talk) 03:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to List of Resident Evil characters. I see a lot of claims that the character is notable, yet no one has provided any strong sources to show this. I just removed some user-written FAQs that were listed as references, as they are not reliable sources, and the remaining sources in the article don't make a strong case for notability. The two game guide references are definitely not independent enough to show notability (and the only information they cite is that the character appears in the games, which shouldn't need a cite, really). The "Background" section is nothing but plot repetition, which should be covered in the game article. If you look at how much of the article is written about the character and not the games, there is shockingly little. I see that the article mentions the model for the character, and that's great, but this is the extent of concept and creation information, which is a basic requirement for a video game character article. What was the inspiration for the character? How did the character design change during conception? What impact has the character had on other video games or other media? What influenced the creation of the character? How did critics regard the character? (And the character specifically, not the game.) This is the sort of information this article needs rather than plot regurgitation and in-universe content. Unless this information can be added and cited to reliable secondary sources, this article cannot hope to expand into an encyclopedic article and merging into the list will better serve the reader. Pagrashtak 18:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as she is a main chararacter in a notable game series. I hav ealso fulfilled the source request by adding published, relliable references and making other improvements to the article: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], etc. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 19:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • No, you have not. Three of those links you provide are minor changes, such as adding a space, adding an s, or changing a period to a semicolon. I don't know why you even bothered linking those. The other two edits add references from player's guides, which are not independent enough to show notability. On top of that, the sentences they reference arguably don't even need citations in the first place, or would be better sourced by citing the video games directly. Pagrashtak 22:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Those references actually do verify much of the rest of the article, but I figured it would be excessive to cite the same sources over and over again throughout the article. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 22:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per Edward321. Seems to me that there is probably plenty of info on Rebecca Chambers throughout the many game publishings that have included Resident Evil over the years. It is a highly notable game series. Seems like something Wikiproject Video Games should really look into not a cause for deletion. Showers (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
• KEEP Rebecca plays a role in the series and not having her character in this would be unencyclopedic, I will work on this article further to make it MORE noteworthy but others must also. SHE IS IMPORTANT. LOTRrules (talk) 16:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to main character list - There is basically no content to this article other than video game plot repetition, and despite the many "keeps", there is still no evidence she is important enough to have a whole article as there are still no references. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 01:01, 29 January 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.