Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Centaur family of Xanth

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, without prejudice against a merge and redirect to Xanth if size does not bar that option. Consensus on this may be determined in article talk space. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Centaur family of Xanth

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Not only is this unreferenced, it has no real-world notability, as WP:FICT suggests it should. Biruitorul (talk) 01:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

• Shorten and merge to Xanth, which is where this information belongs unless the article is too big to contain it, which it doesn't yet seem to be. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 03:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable break-out of its main topic, with no third party sources to support this list, and there already is a List of Xanth characters which is currently just wikilinks. AnteaterZot (talk) 05:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • NOTE: AnteasterZot has been confirmed per checkuser as a sock account. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as notable break-out of its main topic with real-world notability. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 05:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

• Comment Where is the real-world notability that you mention? Merge any thing encyclopedic to Xanth, by the way. Black Kite 09:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • It's notable to people in the real world. If we merge then we must redirect without deleting per the GFDL. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 16:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but who in the real world considers it notable? What evidence do you have to back up this assertion. Biruitorul (talk) 16:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

• Keep As the original author of the list, it was created to bring order to the list of characters of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. To reintegrate all of the characters into one list would create a list that is extremely long and would take a lot of time to load for dial-up users. It takes several seconds for it to load by itself. There is a warning when articles get too long, and if all of the characters were all placed on the same page again, I would have to leave and do other things while the page is loading. There is also the time I invested in figuring out the best way to divide the character list in the first place. (I know, I know, not a good enough reason, but still.) - LA @ 08:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, yes, but we still should satisfy WP:V, which is official policy and not optional. Biruitorul (talk) 16:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

• "'Keep'" for the same reasons described above. 68.63.95.67 (talk) 20:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep utilities of size suggest merging would make something unwieldy. I know the series is highly notable and assume good faith on the likely probability that 3rd person commentary can be found. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 18:56, 7 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.