Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pixar characters

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 12:02, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of Pixar characters

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Seeing that a similiar thing happened with a List of Disney animated universe characters, is this page necessary? If someone is looking for lists of Pixar characters, there are already pages like List of Toy Story characters or List of Monsters, Inc. characters (which for no reason have exclusive sections for them on this other page apart from the rest of characters that are simply arranged alphabetically regardless of its origin).--BrookTheHumming (talk) 23:20, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Did you remember to AfD the article? It isn’t showing up at the top of the page. Zaynab1418 (talk) 09:38, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Disney, and Lists. Shellwood (talk) 18:37, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete massively redundant to aforementioned lists and generally fancruft. Dronebogus (talk) 18:44, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete with fire. WP:NOTDIRECTORY and unnecessary fancruft. Bad writing to boot ("Monster's Inc"). sixtynine ^{• whaddya want? •} 19:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: redundant to the character lists for the individual movies. Does not need to be listed twice. Jontesta (talk) 19:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: as an WP:ATD, I would suggest that this article could be converted into a very brief WP:LISTOFLISTS. That is, just keep the See Also links as the full content of the page. This seems like a plausible search term, so I have a preference for maintaining it as a list of lists rather than a dead link. Suriname0 (talk) 16:47, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I considered that, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be deleted and recreated as a meta-list. It’d also be preferable to move it to “lists of Pixar characters” Dronebogus (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be honest, I'm not familiar enough with the details to understand why a Delete + New Article would be better than a Page Move. Isn't preserving page history generally preferred? Suriname0 (talk) 20:00, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At the same time, this article seems to be just character names, film names, and performers... not exactly the sort of thing that needs attribution (hence WP:MAD). -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 00:29, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The article was only tagged on Nov. 13th so I'm relisting this discussion so it can get a full 7 days of consideration. I urge others not to close it before 11/20 if possible.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:35, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Nearly every entry here simply links to the corresponding character or cast list for the the individual movies/franchises, making it redundant to those already existing lists. There is no actual connection between the characters from the different franchises aside from simply being created by the same studio, so listing this massive amount of characters from dozens of completely different properties is not an appropriate grouping or way to present the information. Rorshacma (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Converting this to a list of lists would be redundant with a list of lists of Disney characters, should it ever be made. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 00:29, 20 November 2022 (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.