Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dexter's Laboratory characters (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. A merge was suggested, but had little support, and some good arguments why a merge would not be a good idea. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:20, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of Dexter's Laboratory characters

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The previous AfD closed as no consensus. Thus, I would like to add new information supporting deletion: a similar article has been deleted by AfD before (in June 2011, under the title List of characters in Dexter's Laboratory). That version had many of the problems in the current article: it was unsourced and lacks real-world background beyond basic casting information. However, this version no longer includes any of the one-off characters and the character descriptions are not very "extensive". In the previous nomination, @Paper Luigi reported that after "extensive research", the secondary characters were found to fail WP:LISTN. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 02:17, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 03:33, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Any content of value can be added to the main article, Dexter's Laboratory. Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:14, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for reasons I brought up in the previous nominations. There's a place on the Internet for just about every character and any little detail about the series, but Wikipedia is not that place. Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 22:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails WP:LISTN; any worthwhile content can be merged to the main article Spiderone 11:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge, this is a typical split-off article from a notable television series article. Obviously the characters of a series need to be described in order to have comprehensive coverage of that series, so the only options are to keep as a stand-alone list or to merge to the series article (which has no section for the series' characters at present), not to delete outright. postdlf (talk) 00:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Merging in this case does not provide the main article with any content it does not already have. Character descriptions for main characters are just summaries of information already found in Dexter's Laboratory. Additional information not mentioned in the main article but mentioned in the character list is trivial, pertaining to only one or a few episodes of the series. Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 11:22, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - The whole point of having separate sections in any article is to lay out information on each element of a topic organized for the ease of readers, so they don't have to extract or piece it together from an undifferentiated mass of content. The question of detail (as well as of organization) is one for the scalpel of editing, not the sledgehammer of deletion. postdlf (talk) 15:28, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, better to merge the characters article into the main series article than to delete it. Hansen Sebastian^Talk 05:07, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- See my other comment above. Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 11:22, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per Paper Luigi. A merge of cruft is still... cruft. This is better off on Wikia._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:38, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.