Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Jewish comic book characters

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The result was keep‎. I see a consensus here to Keep this article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:00, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of Jewish comic book characters[edit]

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Arbitrary cross-category without evidence of notability that wouldn’t need to exist even if the topic was notable. Dronebogus (talk) 09:27, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Comics and animation, and Lists. Dronebogus (talk) 09:27, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Ethnic groups and Judaism. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:36, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~ Keep. Not sure if a list is the best way to approach this, but "jewish" + "superhero" does seem to be a notable intersection: [1], [2], [3], [4]. It would probably work better as a prose article under a title like Jews in comic books Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 12:33, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
On reflection and after considering the similar Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of black superheroes, I am upgrading my comment to a Keep on the basis that this is a notable intersection. Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 13:08, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Barnards (who gave a compelling delete reason, despite !voting to keep). You said it yourself that this would be better as a prose article. Also just a quick side note, the sources you're providing all talk about Jewish superheroes, but not all comic book characters generally, many of which aren't superheroes. Even restricting to that, even if it's a notable topic you could write an article about, it doesn't justify the existence of a list like this. A few random examples I looked at say nothing about this in their main articles, but are simply shoved into Category:Jewish superheroes with no justification (a pretty non-WP:DEFINING category to boot). 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:33, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (or simply redirect?) to List of fictional Jews. That topic is notable, this list is overly specific and unnecessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:15, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Enough links to articles about the characters to justify a list. Category:Jewish superheroes and Category:Fictional Jews in comics exist and show notable entries for this list. Dream Focus 07:27, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:42, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:11, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep meets WP:NLIST, the topic grouping is notable ([5][6][7]. Criteria is clear, curation seems ok, maybe needs a bit more attention but no reason for deletion. —siro χ o 11:25, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Not arbitrary. Meets WP:NLIST per sources identified. gidonb (talk) 15:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I'm not sure if these cross categorizations are an obvious topic for an article. But I see enough reliable third-party sources to justify this article. Should be improved, not deleted. Shooterwalker (talk) 22:13, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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