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 keep. Potential discussion of a possible merge should take place on a relevant talkpage - not enough of a consensus here for a merge, specifically. Keeper | 76 05:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Leomon[edit]

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No notability outside of the Digimon universe. No reliable sources cited. J Milburn (talk) 16:05, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as per nom. RP459 (talk) 18:52, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per nom. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 19:53, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per sources in Google News andGoogle Books. No evidence of WP:BEFORE attempts, flagging for rescue. Jclemens (talk) 19:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Which of those sources do you feel is reliable and substantial enough to confer notability? J Milburn (talk) 20:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • As you nominated it for deletion, it's your responsibility to go through those sources and explain why none of them convey notability. Jclemens (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ok, I'll start with today's edition of the New York Times shall I? First article doesn't mention Leomon... J Milburn (talk) 23:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • In case you missed my point, I can't prove a negative. Show me what you consider to be decent sources here, and they can be judged. Even better, improve the article... If you get some real-world stuff in there from a few decent sources, I'll happily drop the nomination. J Milburn (talk) 23:30, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per nom.--Pedro thy master (talk) 01:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: Let this page stay. If he is a principal Digimon in any season, he shouldn't be deleted. Rtkat3 (talk) 9:21, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep: He is a major character in the first three season storylines(1 and 3).Fractyl (talk) 01:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or merge it really makes no difference, as long as the full information is retained. The one thing not to do is delete. DGG (talk) 02:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and keep a redirect since the other group character articles likely took info from that main article. He's been a somewhat notable character (in respects to the series he was in) for four different anime seasons/series, and at least one or two mangas. This definitely warrants some kind of mention somewhere, but we lack some real world context to expand Leomon's coverage into something that would need a separate article. -- Ned Scott 05:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep He is quite a notable character in the series. Dream Focus 06:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per sources in Google News andGoogle Books. Needs referencing and out of universe info though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: These mindless assertions about notability are useless and do not help anything. If you're so convinced he's notable, provide some sources here (don't just link to lists of forums- yes, this rubbish was on Google News...) or, even better, improve the article. If he's as important as you're all claiming, it shouldn't be difficult to provide some out of universe stuff to the article. J Milburn (talk) 11:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or Merge He's notable in the series and the fan community, but I doubt he's had enough of an impact to create the sources we're looking for. The only "source" I could think of was this, and I'm not sure that's what we're looking for. If he can't have his own article, then I suggest we merge it with some of his fellow Chosen Digimon. Gagbumon (talk) 23:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Strongest possible delete. Seriously, stop pointing at Google searches and actually look at the so-called sources! There are a massive 12 Google News hits for +Leomon AND digimon, all of them fan forums or episode summaries, except this:[1], which is not exactly enough to write an article around as it is a brief mention. As for books, a whopping 14 hits, half of which are those damned computer generated Webster's books, and the rest of which look distinctly unpromising, but I can't access them. Transwiki anything you want kept to http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Leomon and delete. This character has no independent notability. Fences&Windows 02:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment:...wikia is not your dumping ground, and you should really check that the wikia article isn't already better before suggesting as much. However, the article is a very likely search term for readers looking about information on Digimon, and should not be deleted but instead merged to List of characters in Digimon Adventure, Jeri Katou, and List of characters in Digimon Tamers, and then redirected to whichever is the most useful.08:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.94.192.235 (talk)
• Delete as non-notable, unsourced fiction regurgitation from a commercial franchise. Wikipedia is not a fansite. Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:02, 1 August 2009 (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.