Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Haunted Mansion characters

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The result was delete. Doczilla _{@SUPERHEROLOGIST} 20:31, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of Haunted Mansion characters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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See maintenance tags: pure, in-universe fancruft sourced entirely from official Disney blogs and fansites. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 20:11, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Disney. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 20:11, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Amusement parks and Lists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:28, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, very niche content for Disney fans. Not notable beyond the attraction itself to stand in an article, trivial. Adog (Talk・Cont) 15:26, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: I cannot find any reliable sources that discuss these characters in detail. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 00:47, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to The_Haunted_Mansion#Lore. This is mostly unreferenced, WP:NLIST does not appear met, but a merger of summary, with some refs, would be good given the linked to "Lore" section right now consists of just a "see this list". A bit of plot summary should exist in the target article and this list can be condensed into such a form (note: a cut of ~90-95% in lenght is likely warranted, given that this is, let's face it, WP:FANCRUFT). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:37, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or merge with The Haunted Mansion, but establish a character section for the mansion's inhabitants in the spirit of WP:PRESERVE. --Rtkat3 (talk) 17:53, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I have found some sources and am sure their are others. [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. ― Kaleeb18^Talk_Caleb 18:22, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete/merge if anything useful. Andre🚐 18:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge sourced content into The Haunted Mansion. —VersaceSpace 🌃 03:42, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Kaleeb18's sourcing. I'll note that deletion arguments not considering merger are non-policy-based, and those opining before the demonstration of sources should be discounted. Jclemens (talk) 01:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, a check of the sources cited by Kaleeb show that they provide no information that would showcase a WP:NLIST pass, indeed they do not seem to provide any relevant commentary on the characters at all, merely providing some trivial in-universe plot description. Attempting to merge any of the poorly referenced fancruft that currently makes up this article would almost certainly be a WP:UNDUEWEIGHT violation. Devonian Wombat (talk) 12:18, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Modussiccandi (talk) 18:58, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Of the sources provided above, only the one from the OC Register really actually discusses the topic of the actual "characters" in the ride, rather than as part of a discussion of the ride as a whole. I was considering the idea of a merge to The Haunted Mansion#Lore as suggested by Piotrus, but the actual notable ghosts discussed in the OC register article are all actually described in the article already in the detailed description in the "Attraction" section. The OC Register article should be added as a reference to the main The Haunted Mansion article for sure, but since there is no actual information using it as a source in this list, a merge would not be needed for that. Rorshacma (talk) 01:54, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Just to muddy the issue further, IIRC, the original ride designers did not intend to include any kind of actual story within the ride, so a good deal of this material is "fanon" developed over the years by Disney fans and ride ops at the parks. Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 06:17, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom, especially their latter comment. Handmeanotherbagofthemchips (talk) 15:38, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Rorshacma. Sources don't have enough coverage to meet WP:SIGCOV. Jontesta (talk) 19:07, 16 August 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.