Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strongarm (Transformers)

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 List of Autobots. (non-admin closure) Anarchyte (work | talk) 05:58, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strongarm (Transformers)[edit]

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This article does not currently establish notability. TTN (talk) 19:41, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. TTN (talk) 19:41, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or Turn into a Disambiguation page, since this page features two different cartoon characters from animated series which also have articles, we would probably disambiguate it to those two animated series pages. Mathewignash (talk) 14:05, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, or, if a dab page is genuinely necessary, redirect it to Strongarm and list both characters there. Josh Milburn (talk) 21:56, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Merge any content if needed. Avoid redlink bait to recreate the article again, preserves history if ever needed. Montanabw^(talk) 20:35, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Autobots. The information on this character is largely unsupported by reliable sources, so a stand along article is out of the question. The List of Autobots has entries on all of the various incarnations of this character, though, so it would make the most sense for a redirect target. 64.183.45.226 (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Considering this is an article about several characters in different cartoon series, it would make more sense to redirect/merge to pages about those cartoon's characters. Leaving an disambig and merging to places like List of Transformers: Energon characters and List_of_Transformers:_Robots_in_Disguise_(2015_TV_series)_characters#Autobots would be better than lazily merging to a giant list of Autobot names. Mathewignash (talk) 12:22, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If there were actually a good amount of sourced information in this article, I would agree with you, but there is not. Nearly all of the sources here are from fansites, youtube videos, etc. In short, none of the actual information here is being backed by reliable sources, thus merging it into multiple other articles would be overall detrimental. And again, the List of Autobot Characters actually has multiple entries for this character's different incarnations, so the coverage on his different cartoon/toy/etc. versions is still easily accessible there.64.183.45.226 (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of Autobots per above comment. Aoba47 (talk) 17:56, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Autobots. The above discussions are compelling enough. Lourdes 04:32, 28 October 2016 (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.