Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reaper (Marvel Comics)

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 redirect to Mutant Liberation Front. The other alternative, the Liberation Front of Mutants, didn't get enough support here. Sandstein 21:12, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reaper (Marvel Comics)[edit]

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Minor character that does meet any of the requirements listed at this guideline for comic book characters. No significant coverage in reliable published sources. Entire article is just character biography, plot summaries, and trivia best left to fanwikis. The character may meet the requirements for inclusion in a list, so a redirect might be a better option. Amsgearing (talk) 19:11, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge into List of Marvel Comics characters: R or Mutant Liberation Front. No need to delete when merge is a valid option. BOZ (talk) 21:16, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Mutant Liberation Front and add some info to his entry there about Exiles (Malibu Comics). I think that will provide sufficient coverage for the other eight articles that name drop him. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:14, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment as the nominator, I support the Redirect to Mutant Liberation Front option suggested by both of the other editors that have weighed in so far. Amsgearing (talk) 18:37, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dom from Paris (talk) 14:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect per User:Argento Surfer FOARP (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per basically everyone above me. SleepForever talk 06:23, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The pages lists numerous different Marvel characters with this name and so we shouldn't assume that the reader is wanting a particular one. The page should be retained for disambiguation and to assist navigation. Andrew D. (talk) 23:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Davidson: It's this kind of stuff that people keep trying to call you out on: you happened across this article purely because you watch AFD, and yet you're telling editors who know about, and are interested in, this particular topic that they are wrong about the topic, and you know what readers who are interested in the topic are looking for better than they do. This is exactly what happened at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanka prose, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean influence on Japanese culture and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of General Caste in Sikhism (2nd nomination), and if it keeps happening you will be TBANned. There wasn't a consensus at last week's ANI that your deletion-related behaviour wasn't disruptive in general, and there wasn't even consensus that you shouldn't be banned from de-prodding or de-prodding without an explanation -- there just wasn't consensus that you should be banned from those things, and (almost?) no one who looked at the evidence of general AFD disruption felt your hands were clean. You're seriously treading on very thin ice at the moment, with comments like the one above. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:20, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of the various characters listed in the article, only two have links. One is actually Grim Reaper, so I doubt readers would need help finding that. The other, Reaper (Gunther Strauss), is even less significant than the one being discussed here. I have PROD'd it. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Andrew's comment above is nonsense and shows a lack of awareness of how mainstream American superhero comics work. The number of "different characters" who have born the name "Batman" for at least one issue or Elseworlds book is probably much higher than the list referred to in the above !vote, and indeed Dick Grasyon's stint as Batman has probably had much more coverage in reliable secondary sources than all the "secondary Reapers" combined, but our main Batman article is still on Bruce Wayne. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:13, 16 November 2018 (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.