Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of creatures in the Resident Evil series

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 No Consensus to delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 16:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of creatures in the Resident Evil series

List of creatures in the Resident Evil series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

This list is mainly

• Note: This debate has been included in the
  list of video game related deletions. TTN (talk) 21:17, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Cliff smith ^talk 21:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The rest I can see, but Tyrant seems like a subject that could be made into an article, given it's an icon of the series and that Nemesis (on the same page, with reception of its own) can be combined into it. Film appearances for both characters should add a bit of bulk too. If not an article then placed somewhere else, as it does deserve some degree of encyclopedic mention. Thoughts?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 21:23, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and cleanup per Jonny2x4's statements below.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 02:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• keep these list are common place and widely known, they don't merit own articles but a list type article that talks about the characters from the series is beneficial.Chuletadechancho (talk) 22:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is the appropriate way of handling characters like this,and much better than discussing them in each pertinent article. If the contnt is relevant there, its just a relevant and appropriate collected here. DGG (talk) 23:56, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as there is really no arguable alternative for the collection of this information. Short synopses in the articles themselves would be pointlessly redundant. Ford MF (talk) 00:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and cleanup as the list as a whole satisfies
  MuZemike (talk) 00:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Split out "Nemesis" and delete: as this list of enemies is a violation of
  WP:GAMETRIVIA info. Randomran (talk) 00:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Cleanup. I've been meaning to clean this one up for quite awhile, but I kinda just forgot about it. In the case it gets deleted, a lot of the creatures in this article could just be mentioned in the Gameplay subsection of the game they're featured (i.e: Yawn could be mentioned in the RE1 article, Hypnos could be mentioned in the Gun Survivor article and so on). Enemy creatures like the Tyrant and Nemesis that assert notability could get their own article as well. Jonny2x4 (talk) 02:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This is unabashed video game cruft. 99% of these enemies have received no coverage outside the in-game universe. How does a list of enemies satisfy
  WP:VGSCOPE? It doesn't. -- Noj r (talk) 04:38, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete per
  talk) 18:43, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep The fundamental problem with this list is that it's a list. The moment you make a list you're asserting that all items within the criteria, which is either the name or the stated purpose of the list, are equally worthy of note, and that the list must be filled. The moment that happens all sense of perspective goes down the crapper, as seen here, the result is bloody useless to someone who actually wants to learn how these critters fit into the series. The better way of doing it is to convert it into an article, give due weight to appropriate creatures (zombies, lickers and the nemesis for instance), group the others under 'mutated flora and fauna' and 'bioweapons' (which is all they are), look at the wider picture and answer the question "what kind of creatures are found in the RE series?" The answer to which is not listing every zoo animal infected with the T-virus from a single episode of a single game which occurs outside the main series. Insignificant entries like the zoo animals and the irrelevant brainsucker can be banished, if they're mentioned in the game articles then that's as much as they could possibly warrant. Someoneanother 21:02, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Neutral Although it remains a possibility that an article on this subject could be brought together, an extended search produced no strong cornerstones for an article of that nature, and piecing one together from scraps would be a massive undertaking. The only thing I am sure about is that a list of each critter is unwarranted. Someoneanother 23:48, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Cleanup and Keep personally, I came to this article because essentially it is exactly what I was looking for (list of characters in all the resident evil games). Admittedly, it could be reformatted into article form rather than list form but I think the page itself serves a purpose, and one that is mighty useful. 90.203.184.38 (talk) 21:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — these isn't a character list, this is nothing more than pure
  WP:VGSCOPE; coverage of the enemies from the perspective of the series should take place on the series article. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 03:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep and Cleanup per MuZemike. S. Luke (talk) 04:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Snowball keep per everyone and per such comments as this. There is no need to delete this article about a notable topic. User seems to be taking the project to arbitration as seen at
  Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Request_for_clarification:_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FEpisodes_and_characters_2, which I noticed from the link on his talk page. As for splitting out Nemesis and then deleting this article, that cannot be done per the GFDL, i.e. Wikipedia:Merge and delete. AfDcruft pure and simple. --172.168.52.20 (talk) 14:58, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply
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For the record it wouldn't actually be a Merge and Delete issue in that case, as Nemesis did actually have his own article for a time.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 15:08, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename and excise per Randomran. One member of this list is notable. The rest are not covered in secondary sources and there certainly isn't any "list of villains in RE" in a secondary source indicating that this is a notable topic of interest. Do not keep this whole list Protonk (talk) 22:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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