Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Iron Man supporting characters

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 keep. Tone 07:51, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Another list of characters associated with Iron Man, I guess. Who decides who is supporting or not? Is this just for his allies? Perhaps it could survive if it was merged with a List of Iron Man enemies into a List of Iron Man characters, given the popularity of the franchise, I can imagine there would be sources for this. But I don't think we need two lists of Iron Man related characters, this at least one list too many. Oh, all referenced to secondary / in-universe fan sources (a fan wiki, not sure if it is a fork of WIkipedia, fandom or stand-alone). PS. The entire Category:Lists of supporting characters in comics needs a cleanup, perhaps as easy as renaming those articles by removing the word 'supporting' from their title and including the main character and his/her versions in it. But overall those list suffer from few sources, particularly ones that make it clear that character X is primarily associated with superhero Y. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:22, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep The nomination doesn't provide a reason to delete; just some rambling ideas for development contrary to WP:NOTCLEANUP and WP:IGNORINGATD. The topic passes WP:LISTN – see the Iron Manual for example. The policy WP:ATD applies. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:42, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for a number of reasons, but I think the issues raised by Andrew🐉 are enough to keep this article until further reasoning is given by the proposer. Timmccloud (talk) 19:56, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or move to List of Iron Man characters Is there a reason this nomination was filed at WP:AFD, instead of the talk page, Wikiproject, Requested Moves, or anywhere more pertinent? Per WP:DELREASON, WP:ATD, WP:NOTNOTABLE, WP:SUSC, and a few others, deletion is not the go-to place for whenever you have a general issue or aren't happy with the state of sourcing in an article (WP:NEXIST, WP:RUBBISH, WP:NOEFFORT, etc). WP:AFD is the last resort for when you are absolutely sure it meets the criteria of DELREASON. That's about it. Darkknight2149 18:57, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per above comments, and per WP:PRESERVE and WP:ATD. BOZ (talk) 19:40, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: The article in its current state is absolutely deficient. At a minimum, the characters should have the basic real-world information of who created them, and when. But this can be fixed, as others have said, and can be handled through talk page conversations and requesting a merge. — Toughpigs (talk) 19:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename or merge as a List of Iron Man characters would be a normal practice on Wikipedia. The article does need work but that's part of normal editing. Archrogue (talk) 19:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Per WP:ATD as there was no reason given to merit total deletion; but move to List of Iron Man characters. Now List of Iron Man enemies I can get behind deleting for non-notability._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 23:21, 9 September 2020 (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.