Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of female Transformers

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ethically ^(Yours) 07:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of female Transformers

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This is a redundant grouping of characters. There are 26 other lists for this franchise, and these characters are covered within the relevant ones. There is nothing asserting that the topic of "female Transformers" is particularly notable, so there is no need to list them in this fashion. TTN (talk) 19:32, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:35, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep because highlighting this grouping makes sense in the course of our coverage of this franchise. The animators and other TF went out of their way to design these robot characters as expressly female, in a franchise (and toy line) that is targeted to boys and that features characters that are all otherwise implicitly male or masculine (both in terms of visible character design and voice actors). The first such female TF characters were even introduced as a group in a single cartoon episode. Whether this can or should be handled within the context of a larger list is a question for normal editing and discussion, but this grouping makes sense regardless. postdlf (talk) 16:50, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Two days ago there was an article in The Mary Sue about the backlash over the creation of a new female Transformer. As independent media are recognizing this grouping and there are sufficient sources to engage the topic encyclopedically, this should be kept. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 00:01, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Convinced by the previous votes. --Crazy runner (talk) 15:49, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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