Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overdrive (Transformers)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Courcelles 05:20, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Overdrive (Transformers)

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Fictional character with no apparent independent notability or significant third-party sources. Macr86 (talk) 00:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:07, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Article has third party sources. Mathewignash (talk) 10:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The same types of sources that you have been told over and over and over and (do we sense a pattern?) over again are not sufficient for establishing notability. Seriously, how many AfDs have we been through now where your links to toy guides and fan forums have been utterly rejected by the Wikipedia community? A name drop in some newspaper's Q&A doesn't fly for this one, either. Tarc (talk) 18:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Yet more toycruft that does not have sufficiently independent or reliable sources to back up claims of notability. Minor toys do not get encyclopedia articles. Tarc (talk) 18:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - ditto Tarc's reasoning. Dwanyewest (talk) 13:35, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I have to agree with Tarc. Fan forums and toy catalogues do not establish notability. Wikipedia is not a database of every fictional character ever invented. Reyk _YO! 06:10, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - There are books and even an article in the Palm Beach Post about him! Mathewignash (talk) 18:10, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, the Palm Beach Post does not have an article about him; this is why people are having a problem with you and your "work" on these articles, as said work borders on deception. The link in question is to a Q&A column, a reader asking for advice on how to deal with Hasbro's non-shipment of Overdrive and another Transformer long after the "allow 6-8 weeks for delivery" time frame. Being name-dropped in a newspaper as part of another topic altogether in this fashion does not meet the WP:RS threshold. Tarc (talk) 20:41, 26 December 2010 (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.