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The result was keep. JohnCD (talk) 17:50, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Creatures in the Half-Life series

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This article was nominated for deletion before, with no consensus, but I believe that it clearly should be deleted; it seems that no one was able to find more than a few sentences of references, and the creatures with notability were split off into their own articles. The rest is simply original research and reads like a game guide or plot compendium. There's not really any place to merge it to either, due to the list format and mostly unencyclopedic content._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 03:40, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Characters of Half-Life (and shrink, instead of doing a direct textmerge, it should be a summarized merge) 76.66.192.206 (talk) 06:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. Exactly what was said by 76.66.192.206. smithers - talk 06:44, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. MrKIA11 (talk) 17:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, I am more inclined to keep two large lists in smaller lists than have one hard to navigate list. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:57, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep No reason to merge an article listing only the creatures in a series, with another significantly long article about just the people characters themselves. I see no valid reason to delete this article either. The encyclopedia isn't complete without full coverage of everything an encyclopedia would normally cover. It doesn't matter if it is from history people consider real, belief systems and legends that no one believes anymore, or modern day works of fiction. Millions of people play these games, and the creatures you find in all of them deserve their own article, covering them. Some of these creatures are so notable, they have their own separate articles even. Dream Focus 21:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep & clean up - this article needs some major trimming to be encyclopedic, but I agree with Dream Focus in that merging it with the characters article would probably go against WP:SIZE, making it too long. It also suffers from the typical "Wikia copy-paste" syndrome, as much of this material is copied directly from the Half-Life Wiki. --Teancum (talk) 13:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actual, this article was copied to the Wikia. See the edit from December of 2008 [1] and then note the wikia [2] on January of 2009. It was here before it was seen over there. Dream Focus 14:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it belongs here; if wikia wants it also, fine, because they can expand on the details more than we appropriately would. There is no point in merging something which is already a properly merged article. The ones with notability insufficient for an article of their own should be covered here--there is no notability requirement forthe content of an article. DGG ( talk ) 04:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Surprisingly, this subject seems to receive some level of third party coverage. JBsupreme (talk) 21:48, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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