Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Five Nights at Freddy's characters

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 delete--Ymblanter (talk) 06:51, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of Five Nights at Freddy's characters

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Do to the heavy activity and debate, Articles for Deletion is a better process than Proposed Deletion. No sources, no indication of notability. Safiel (talk) 00:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Esquivalience ^t 00:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Esquivalience ^t 00:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - pure fan-fiction things. Also falls under WP:LISTCRUFT. --TL22 (talk) 00:46, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:LISTN, WP:GAMEGUIDE, and WP:VGSCOPE #6: The general reader would not find this of much use, nor would the absence of the list be even mildly detrimental to the general reader. I cannot also find coverage of the group covered by this list, only individual characters. Esquivalience ^t 00:52, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It looks like WP is being used to promote this project. One article on it should be enough until the movie is produced.Borock (talk) 01:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per reasons said above. --☣Anar chyte☣ 02:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move to draft instead of deletion. The creator must've put a lot of work into this and so I think this should be moved instead of deleted. --☣Anar chyte☣ 10:03, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

While I certainly appreciate the creator's commitment to the project, for an article to be incubated or moved to draft space, there should be convincing evidence that while the article is not suitable right now, it has the potential to become so in the future with time and improvement. I don't see such evidence for this list of characters—most of it is unverifiable. To me, the more preferable solution would be to start over from scratch. Or, in the unlikely case that significant new information becomes available to support the article in the future, an appeal can be made at WP:DRV. Mz7 (talk) 19:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as mostly unsourced fan theories. Things that could be merged sourcedly are probably more than well mentioned at Five Nights at Freddy's (series) and the three individual game articles. 野狼院ひさし u/t/c 08:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I have tried to fix this article multiple times, but underaged users seem to prevent me from doing so.--BrayLockBoy (talk) 09:54, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As said above, attempts have been made to fix the article and make it more inline with Wikipedia's standards, but there has been continuous resistance from the article's original creator/key contributor, though in the end he was the one who decided to nominate this article for deletion. The truth is this article is made entirely from fancruft and theories, is not formatted in an appropriate style, and lacked any references/sources beyond a vague image from Deviantart. The game series itself is notable, but an article listing its characters is not, plus finding relevant sources has proved difficult since the only genuine source of information related to the characters comes from the games themselves or their creator Scott Cawthon. As an alternative, the characters introduced in each individual game could be covered in the game articles under the plot section. Evilgidgit (talk) 11:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above - Pure LISTCRUFT. –Davey2010^Talk 19:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above reasons. Killerwhale24680 (talk) 21:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I originally endorsed the article's PROD. My comment was: "As with any article on Wikipedia, a list of fictional characters needs to be verifiable, written from a neutral point of view, and cannot contain original research. In order for an article to satisfy these core content policies, reliable third-party sources need to exist to confirm relevant information about each character—see WP:N. There is no evidence of that for this article. There is also a general agreement on the talk page that this article be deleted or merged." Mz7 (talk) 04:07, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Tossing my hat in here as I've had some interaction with this article prior. Seems to be made entirely of fancruft and listcrust as per above. Winner 42 Talk to me! 16:16, 29 May 2015 (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.