Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mechanical Beasts

: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 merge to Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. Content can be trimmed as needed when performing the merges, as is the usual practice. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 04:25, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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Article is an extreme example of WP:INDISCRIMINATE - this 30kb article is largely a list of over a hundred villain of the week characters which cannot all be notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. A classic example of fancruft. The content is entirely unsourced, full of plot summary, largely written in-universe in style, and generally not up to encyclopedic standards. Propose deletion or redirection to Mazinger Z (with a rename probably as the current name is ambiguous to those unfamiliar with the series). Some guy (talk) 19:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

I also nominate this related article, which doesn't have a gigantic list but shares the other issues:

{{la|Warrior Beasts}}

Some guy (talk) 19:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Merge Warrior Beasts and Mechanical Beasts into Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger respectively. While the lists of "beast of the week" is trivial and would violate WP:IINFO, the main concept of both groups of villeins do play a central role in the television series. But deleting them is affectively throwing the baby, which you want to keep, out with the bath watter. —Farix (t | c) 22:50, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Comment: You have confused the two series in your merge proposal. My opinion is that there is no content of sufficient quality in either article to be worth merging into the series' articles. Some guy (talk) 23:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Delete Too much detail for non-notable characters. Minor component of fictional work. --John Nagle (talk) 07:06, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Merge but trim significantly, to Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger respectively. So much fancruft that could make non-fans cringe, but it's not good to entirely throw it into the wind. Rather, their content should be rewritten in order to become more encyclopedic, perhaps with more real-world perspectives. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:55, 5 October 2012 (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.