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 delete. It turns out I cannot delete the article since it has so many revisions. Could a steward handle it, please? Tone22:46, 6 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Same rationale as
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Autobots that was just deleted. Anyone worried about the redirects to the article can either move them now or request they be retained should this end in delete.
This list no longer has any utility. The series previously had somewhere between 600-1000 character articles. It now has 20. There are also around 20 character lists, so this is not a necessary navigational list. Decepticon can hold a small list of blue links if that's actually necessary. This is just a barebones list of names, and even that is useless because most of these characters have two to three different versions due to most of these series being completely different continuities only sharing some core character concepts. Due to that, this cannot function as a proper navigational hub without being even more of a mess than its current incarnation.
TTN (
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21:36, 28 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - Pretty much my same argument here as on the recently closed AFD on the corresponding Autobots list. Every major iteration of the franchise already has coverage of their major characters, whether on the many other
Lists of Transformers characters or in their own articles. A list that just jams in every Decepticon, regardless of notability, from multiple series, timelines, and continuities into one place is not a useful way to organize information that is either already found in better form elsewhere or not notable enough to cover.
Decepticons are notable, but this list is just
WP:INDISCRIMINATE.
Rorshacma (
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00:03, 29 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - The Transformers story arcs are too separate to create a coherent list that passes
WP:LISTN, and most of the content on this page is irrelevant to anything.
Hog Farm (
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05:03, 29 February 2020 (UTC)reply
Userfy - I believe this list can be made functional, but I don't have the time to do so now. I'd like it to be moved to a subpage in my userspace so I don't have to start from scratch later.
Argento Surfer (
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15:49, 29 February 2020 (UTC)reply
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