Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mario series enemies

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The result was withdrawn as nominator. — Malcolm^{Use the schwartz!} 00:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Mario series enemies

To start, this article is full of POV (even the word "enemies" is POV in a sense). Also, it's completely unsourced. And the main reason: what's the point of having this list? Most of the characters listed are insignificant, appearing only in one game. — Malcolm^{Use the schwartz!} 17:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The article is full of unneeded junk, but some of them longstanding generic enemies (five to ten, maybe) do have some encyclopedic merit. It needs a total overhaul, but it should be possible to model it after Monsters of Final Fantasy (though that isn't the perfect page to use as a base). Nemu 17:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I don't see what's so wrong with the article. Yes, some info needs ot be removed, but not a lot. "Enemies" is not POV- if they try to kill the player character, they're an enemy. I feel the article has a point, in that it's a list of every villain in the most popular and most important video game series of all time. Trim it a bit, but leave it on WP. -- Kicking222 17:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep Nice to have an article with all the enimes at-a-glance. Sourcing is no problem, as plenty of ink exists for the various Mario games, many of which even have their own published guide books. And how the hell is "enemies" POV? They're out to kill Mario, and he gets points by killing them... not calling them enemies is ludicrously P.C. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

keep:This list is important. There are MANY Mario games, most of which have won awards, and these enemies star in most of them. They are important to the series, and need to be noted.--Scabloo 23:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, it's notable. At most, all this needs is more explicit sourcing and possibly a change of scope to List of recurring Mario series enemies to weed out the one-shots. --tjstrf talk 00:15, 6 May 2007 (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.