Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Characters of 8-Bit Theater

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The result of the debate was withdrawn by nominator. — The Hooded Man ♃♂ 22:48, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Characters of 8-Bit Theater

Unsourced (likely alignments? pasts of characters?), super-extensive fake biographies. I know this is a fork from 8-Bit Theater which was becoming too large, but quite frankly the Characters section seems quite sufficient. Not much more can be said about these characters which would be verifiable and encyclopedic. (ESkog)^(Talk) 06:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Withdrawing nomination per WP:SNOW. There appears to be clear conensus that this article should remain. (ESkog)^(Talk) 20:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. I would recommend you go and read the archives from the beginning before calling it fake. As far as I can remember, those bios all look accurate and have not extrapolated from the comic or fantasized any aspect of the characters. 8-Bit Theater is probably notable enough to merit a giant article on characters. And, to top it off, it's not the longest webcomic article either -- Megatokyo and Questionable Content are both longer! - CorbinSimpson 09:14, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I do read the comic, and enjoy it. But would you put a detailed plot summary of every episode on Wikipedia? There is a line between encyclopedia and trivia, and I feel it has been crossed here. If the consensus here finds otherwise, then that's great too. (ESkog)^(Talk) 18:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. We have plenty of "fake biographies"... And this criticism seems especially besides the point: "Not much more can be said about these characters which would be verifiable and encyclopedic." --Maru (talk) Contribs 14:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It's a nice page concerning fairly notable characters. -- MisterHand 18:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Its a good page, for a very notable web comic, and the 8 Bit Theater page would be too large if all this was merged into it. --Naha|^(talk) 19:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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.