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
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The result was redirect to
Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series. The consensus is pretty clearly in favour of getting rid of this page again, with the favoured alternative be a restoration of the redirect. There is only one argument specifically in favour of deleting rather than redirecting, but it hasn't really convinced anyone else and it's not a very strong argument.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions)
21:12, 4 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - seems to primarily be a giant
WP:OR collection of any character-related connections between games of the series. If somehow kept, it needs to be renamed, as there’s very little in “design” or “development” content here. It’s much more of a shallow take on a “recurring themes” type article.
Sergecross73msg me17:17, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Change back to REDIRECT and stop wasting people's time This was a redirect for years.
[1] 19 May 2016 it was turned into a redirect then Zxcvbnm decides to restore it years later to send it to AFD. Why waste everyone's time with this? If the valid information was already merged over, then let it be.
DreamFocus17:37, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Not one person edited this article since
[2] it was turned into a redirect over three years ago. You don't restore an article from a redirect unless you believe the article should be kept, not because you just want to delete the entire history of the article because you are concerned someone might eventually restore it. You should've just sent it to the redirect deletion discussion area. It has gotten 1,748 Pageviews in the past 90 days, so a valid redirect to exist.
DreamFocus17:57, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
I didn't send it to redirects for deletion because they would've told me to do exactly this, nominate it for AfD due to its past content.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)18:01, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Speedy close and restore redirect per
WP:CHEAP,
WP:DEADHORSE and who knows what else. No valid rationale has been provided on why the redirect should be deleted (and no, preventing future recreation is not a valid reason when the edit history shows no attempts of such happening). I'm not one to assume bad faith, but I do consider it to be lying through omission how the nominator failed to acknowledge in his statement tgat the article has been a redirect for three years, until he himself recreated it and nominated it for deletion(!?). This isn't what AfD is for, and it feels like
WP:GAMING to me. Satellizer el Bridget(Talk)00:38, 31 July 2019 (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.
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
Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series. The consensus is pretty clearly in favour of getting rid of this page again, with the favoured alternative be a restoration of the redirect. There is only one argument specifically in favour of deleting rather than redirecting, but it hasn't really convinced anyone else and it's not a very strong argument.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions)
21:12, 4 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - seems to primarily be a giant
WP:OR collection of any character-related connections between games of the series. If somehow kept, it needs to be renamed, as there’s very little in “design” or “development” content here. It’s much more of a shallow take on a “recurring themes” type article.
Sergecross73msg me17:17, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Change back to REDIRECT and stop wasting people's time This was a redirect for years.
[1] 19 May 2016 it was turned into a redirect then Zxcvbnm decides to restore it years later to send it to AFD. Why waste everyone's time with this? If the valid information was already merged over, then let it be.
DreamFocus17:37, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Not one person edited this article since
[2] it was turned into a redirect over three years ago. You don't restore an article from a redirect unless you believe the article should be kept, not because you just want to delete the entire history of the article because you are concerned someone might eventually restore it. You should've just sent it to the redirect deletion discussion area. It has gotten 1,748 Pageviews in the past 90 days, so a valid redirect to exist.
DreamFocus17:57, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
I didn't send it to redirects for deletion because they would've told me to do exactly this, nominate it for AfD due to its past content.ZXCVBNM (
TALK)18:01, 28 July 2019 (UTC)reply
Speedy close and restore redirect per
WP:CHEAP,
WP:DEADHORSE and who knows what else. No valid rationale has been provided on why the redirect should be deleted (and no, preventing future recreation is not a valid reason when the edit history shows no attempts of such happening). I'm not one to assume bad faith, but I do consider it to be lying through omission how the nominator failed to acknowledge in his statement tgat the article has been a redirect for three years, until he himself recreated it and nominated it for deletion(!?). This isn't what AfD is for, and it feels like
WP:GAMING to me. Satellizer el Bridget(Talk)00:38, 31 July 2019 (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.