Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rab - Villains on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Villains on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Unencyclopedic, Buffy-cruft. It's dedicating a whole article on the "villain" aspect of a TV show. It's redundant because it just reiterates information found in a table in the main BtVS slayer and information from the individual villain articles. In addition, there is a bunch of fandom information posing as facts with no references (i.e. "Some fans", "little bad", etc.) Conter 21:22, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete As so eloquently stated above. --Lomedae 21:29, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep because (1) The nominator didn't even add a tag to the article (I added it for him)- drawing the nomination into question, and (2) As one user remarked on the talk page, while it's redundant at the moment, "That's not to say there's no place for this article, just that it needs expansion to be pertintent. Perhaps more description--the villains objectives, etc.--should be given of the major villains. It might be good to include more of the minor, one episode villains as well." CanadianCaesar 22:08, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Also interesting to note that this nomination represents the user's only edits. [1] CanadianCaesar 22:33, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
• What's NOT interesting is this article. Duplicative fancruft, delete. --Calton | Talk 00:37, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. You people are dumb. This is good stuff. Only fascists would decide to delete. (vote & comments by user User:172.158.10.66 [2])
• Keep or merge into main article. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-08-15 03:04
• Keep. This is the ULTIMATE Buffy article on Wikipedia. All you delete people are anti-Buffy. Buffy is the BEST show on television and the show deserves dozens of articles about it. You people need to get off your high horse and CHANGE YOUR DELETE VOTES TO KEEP. Otherwise, I will expose all the members of this anti-Buffy cabal to the entire community. IF YOU DELETE THIS ARTICLE, YOU ONLY DEMONSTRATE THAT WIKIPEDIA IS RUN BY A BUNCH OF FASCISTS. Ivers2 03:11, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Fan-cruft and repetitive to boot. I disagree with the fascist name-calling since the information is already in the stubby villain articles at Category:Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters. Also, in Buffy The Vampire Slayer the villains are already listed there with links to each villain character article. Sixpence 03:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete but not because it's fancruft (I gave up on killing fancruft when I read Jimbo Wales agree on [[m:Whttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Rab_-_Villains_on_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer&action=edit&section=1

Editing Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Rab - Villains on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (section) - Edit this page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaiki is not paper]] that Wikipedia might as well document every Simpsons episode and character); it should be deleted because it is original research. --Tysto 04:01, 2005 August 15 (UTC)

• Delete. Crufty, original research. Heil VfD! Proto t c 10:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm a huge Buffy fan. I mean, huge. Like, super-duper, know-the-name-if-every-episode, trekkie fan of it. However I am also a wikipedian and we don't do original research. So, and I say this tearing my human soul into piecies, delete gkhan 10:47, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Ohh, and by the way, the big bad for season 2 was not drusilla, it was angelus!!! Stupid, stupid rat creatures gkhan 10:49, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

• Weak delete. The core of the article is essentially a summary of one aspect of the show, which could be kept, because many articles about fiction include a summary. However, beyond this core, is much that is interpretation, and the author's claims about what most fans feel. If all of the questionable material is removed, there isn't a lot that can't be found elsewhere. Regardless, I agree with gkhan: There is no way that Dru is the big bad of season 2; it's clearly Angelus. ManoaChild 12:48, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, now I've got fancruft all over me. Nandesuka 13:01, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Improve or merge The concept of the article isn't bad, but its current execution is extremely poor. Caerwine 18:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect one direction or the other is fine by me. Kim Bruning 01:23, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unneeded cruft, bad article, etc., etc., etc. ral315 01:24, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I worked on this article recently, but I realize that the encyclopedic potential for this to equal a featured article is very little. Also, I couldn't find any authoritative sources for some of the article's claims to refute the author's "original research". For example, no authoritative source states The First's morphing in "Lessons" were suppose to be big bads or just villains from past seasons. In addition, it looks like this focus on the Buffy villain is spawning more duplicates such as big bad. At best a merge into the main Buffy article, but it's already there under the "Characters" section so I vote delete. ! ! ! 01:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)