Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silverbolt

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The result was delete. Consensus is that none of the sources establish the required real-world notability. Courcelles 21:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Silverbolt

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Non-notable fictional character sourced only to primary sources and thus fails WP:GNG. A merge to a minor characters list is usually appropriate here but none appears to exist. Horrible non-free violation as well. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:57, 3 September 2010 (UTC) Black Kite (t) (c) 23:57, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Major character in three notable TV series. Added a source today, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide by Simon Furman page 37 has a paragraph about himMathewignash (talk) 00:14, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with other characters into a List of Beasties characters or something like that. 76.66.194.106 (talk) 05:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete why do we keep this mediocre articles its poorly sourced and has little or notability. Dwanyewest (talk) 01:47, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - notable character within the Transformers franchise, which appeared in the toyline, cartoon, comic books, and film. BOZ (talk) 23:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no notability, no significant coverage in reliable independent sources. This stuff should be on a transformers wikia. --Cameron Scott (talk) 18:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Split the article based along the different series, merge into their respective series character lists, and convert to a disambiguation page. —Farix (t | c) 22:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- When dealing with non-notable character articles, it is always preferable to look for a list or to create one to merge the article into, or merge/redirect them to the main article instead of outright deletion. Only in cases where the character is completely incidental should it be deleted. Also, how the page is currently organizes shows the folly of trying to cover more than one character from different series that happen to share the same name. —Farix (t | c) 17:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Notability proof - I just added a citation to a third party book that talks about Silverbolt in detail. That should help prove notability. Mathewignash (talk) 23:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A 3rd-party reference book of fancruft-ish minutiae. Tarc (talk) 02:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No real-world notability asserted for a fictional character. Tarc (talk) 02:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a blizzard of bad citations, mostly marketting devices. Not a single reliable, independent source that discusses the relevance or meaning of this thing in a real world context. Creators of this sort of content should be gently directed to the transformers wiki.Bali ultimate (talk) 12:46, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete looked through the sources and its mostly marketing and other promotional sources aimed at generating a profit for the creator. No independent source comments on it in a way that would WP:verify notability. Shooterwalker (talk) 19:30, 11 September 2010 (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.