Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/YMS-15 Gyan

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The result was speedy delete- as seen here, this and several other Gundam articles have already been listed and deleted previously. David Fuchs ^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 20:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YMS-15 Gyan

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Thoroughly unencyclopedic topic. Contested prod. Written entirely from "in-universe" perspective, and no amount of tinkering can change that. It just does not have anything that can be made into anything of any encyclopedic value. Finally (and probably most importantly) it does not have any of that non-trivial coverage in multiple, reliable, independent, published sources that we require -- and will never have. (There just isn't any.) Ekjon Lok 01:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Good grief, a fictional weapon? Excalibur this ain't. -- Rob C (Alarob) 01:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. I'm a Gundam fan but... I smell WP:POKEMON in the distance. --Whstchy 02:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. In the distance? Have you looked at the Gundam template/infobox at the bottom of that page? We're already there! I agree with deletion here only because this article is hopelessly in-universe. For better or worse (probably worse) articles about every single Gundam variant are here to stay I think. Their sheer profusion constitutes precedent (and not just in that WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS sense). Ford MF 03:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I meant for this debate specifically, but point very well noted. --Whstchy 03:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. If we delete that article, a lot of the noted Pokemon-sprawl in the footer is likely soon to come next. I imagine that a list of fictional weapons (similar to a list of recurring/minor characters) incorporating text from this and other less notable Gundam universe articles might be preferable. --Edwin Herdman 05:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Merging doesn't sound like a bad idea, but it could take some time to get it all organized and such. --Whstchy 15:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. A list of weapons prominenet in such a franchise makes more sense than a spew of articles about each one, which lack substantial coverage in independent reliable sources. Edison 16:09, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. All that for a fictional weapon? Elfin341 19:39, 23 May 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.