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Withdrawn. DarwinClean (talk) 22:48, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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It doesn't meet current standards in terms of article quality, fails notability. DarwinClean (talk) 12:10, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 13:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keep The current state of the article is not that bad and, in any case, our policy WP:IMPERFECT states clearly that "Perfection is not required: Wikipedia is a work in progress. ... Even poor articles, if they can be improved, are welcome." while our policy WP:ATD states that "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." As for notability, this is huge. Here's an entire book of of 235 pages about the topic, for example. And there are numerous sources detailing that Superman was not alone -- see CBR, for example. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:50, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keep As Andrew has already stated, that the current status is less-than-perfect is no reason for deletion, if it can be improved. I wonder, was there a proper WP:BEFORE search done do ascertain the serious claim that this topic fails notability? WP:BEFORE also asks to put up tags in case of percieved issues so that an editor "may act to remedy it", not as to immediately nominate for deletion! Anyway, the suggested search from Google Scholar alone leads to a large number of hits. I would be surprised if none of those would have content contributing to notability. E.g. Superman and Philosophy has a number of distributed pieces of analysis about Kryptonian psychology, relationship to humanity, and physiology. And speaking about physiology, there is also this paper which don't quite know what to make of it :-). Daranios (talk) 15:22, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- Keep per Andrew. The article has potential notoriety. It is not uncommon to find a book or website talking about the Kryptonians, as [1]. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 17:57, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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