Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shanks (One Piece)

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The result was redirect to List of One Piece characters#Shanks and I'll protect the redirect to stop the IP shenanigans. History under the redirect if there is material to merge. Star Mississippi 02:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shanks (One Piece)

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An IP editor keeps recreating the page of this character. He very clearly fails WP:GNG and should be a list section and nothing more. All the reception is sourced to content-farms or trivial mentions. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:42, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Anime and manga. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:42, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: Most One Piece articles feel copied from a wiki and nearly rushed. Same with Boa Hancock who has only one sentence in reception while Chopper still has the same copied referenced sentences in the actual lead section. I removed most of unreliable sources from Sanji too and it ended up looking worse. I think this already happened last year to the point I was warned or something for merging back the articles.Tintor2 (talk) 19:15, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of One Piece characters per nominator and Tintor2. Fred Zepelin (talk) 21:21, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. The reception looks ok at first glance, but then it's the combination of listicles and low quality chournalism like . "One Piece Cosplay Taps into Shanks' Fierce Power". Sigh. Maybe one day this character will get some serious literary analysis, but my BEFORE right now does not suggest One Piece has been noticed by any serious scholars. It's a pop culture phenomena, yes, but minor characters like Shanks don't need their own Wikipedia articles yet. Sadly, it's WP:FANCRUFT. Redirect for now, and maybe it can be salvaged eventually (I recently restored and proved, I hope, the notability of Yoruichi Shihōin). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:20, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of One Piece characters#Shanks; I agree with Piotrus in that the reception section is based too much on churnalism. While it is possible Shanks could be notable in the future, he just doesn't seem that way now. Link20XX (talk) 14:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - there is nothing worth merging. Fails WP:GNG.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 00:14, 28 March 2023 (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.