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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Birthdays of the Harry Potter series[edit]

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The article's author removed the proposed deletion tag moments after I added it. Although the article's subject may be interesting to some viewers, I can't see why there should be an article for this. Birthdays can be viewed at the individual articles and and character birthdays may be viewed as trivial. SwisterTwister talk 04:10, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per above. A search quickly shows that there's no in-depth coverage of the birthdays of the characters enough for there to really justify a list of this nature. This is essentially one of those things that would probably be great in a fan run wiki, but not really so much in Wikipedia. As far as the information goes, this is already accessible in the character pages and anyone intensely curious could look it up there. This isn't a "must have" list on par with a list of the characters for the series, for example.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:17, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Completely in-universe information that can't possibly be of any use outside the book series. JIP | Talk 05:51, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:23, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:24, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as indiscriminate trivia. This is of no significance within the works themselves and so is not important to understanding them; collecting it together doesn't accomplish anything either. postdlf (talk) 13:51, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Completely trivial and irrelevant even within the series, and it would be completely trivial and irrelevant if they were real people too! --Lquilter (talk) 15:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. This is nothing but useless trivia that, as said by Lquilter, has no notability even within the books, let alone in the real world. Rorshacma (talk) 16:27, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The prophecy at the center of the book notes a boy born at the end of July. The fact that Neville's (which I have just corrected in the article) and Harry's birthdays are both at that time is significant within the book. This may not be enough to justify keeping the article, but it is worth considering. Ma^t_chups 02:52, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the "indiscriminate trivia" comments above are wrong on two levels: 1) it's very discriminate, and 2) IINFO doesn't list fictional elements as within its scope. Despite the deficiency in the above arguments, it is based on a single, non-reliable source. No objections to transwikiing it somewhere relevant if desired. Jclemens (talk) 20:44, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The items included within the list are not indiscriminate in that it's quite clear what belongs in this list and what doesn't. The choice of the list's very subject is indiscriminate, however, because it represents a failure to properly discriminate between what is important or relevant and what is not. postdlf (talk) 22:14, 21 August 2012 (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.