Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roadblock (robot)

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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 Keep. Dreadstar † 04:48, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Roadblock (robot)

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Individual Robot Wars competitors are completely non-notable - the chance of multiple, reliable non-trivial published sources being written about the individual robots is close to nil. Delete.

It was so great watching Road Block win the first series of Robot Wars, but completely not worth an individual encyclopedia article. h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 23:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Merge - This should be merged with other robot wars competitors if it truly not worth of its own page.--Lucy-marie (talk) 23:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is encyclopedic information about an important element of a major TV series. I note that all of the other series winning robots also have articles. There may be a case for merging all of these into Robot Wars, but that might make that article too long, in which case this a valid summary style fork. Anyway merging and forking are issues for talk pages, not AfD. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:41, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep roughly equivalent to a major character in a popular TV series in terms of notability. Comparisons could also be made with a sucessful player in televised sport. --BrucePodger (talk) 23:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Noteable enough. archanamiya · talk 23:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment If it was notable enough for its own article, there would be reliable, third-party sources about it. Clearly there are not such sources.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep There's an analogy with game shows, where we do keep articles on winners. DGG (talk) 15:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment - are people in this discussion ignoring core policies and guidelines such as WP:V, WP:RS and WP:NOR? There is not a single citation in the whole article! And good luck finding one that isn't self-published or a fansite.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 20:44, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
    • I assume most of the information in the article is verifiable by watching the episodes of Robot Wars, which are acceptable sources per WP:PSTS. The article could also cite the book Fighting Robots: A Guide to Radio-Controlled Combatants by Michael Benson. --Pixelface (talk) 20:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, if it won a robot fighting tournament it's a notable robot. --Pixelface (talk) 20:55, 4 April 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.