Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dragon: Blood & Guts

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The result was redirect to Savage Dragon. Although close to delete, some delete !voters were not opposed to a redirect, and thus the consensus is redirect the panda ₯’ 22:40, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Dragon: Blood & Guts

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A non notable limited comic book series without credible sources to demonstrate notability. Dwanyewest (talk) 05:07, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Doesn't appear to have any real notability even within the world of the Dragon. Aside from a bibliographical listing, Savage Dragon doesn't even mention this series.--NukeofEarl (talk) 18:49, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep w/o prejudice to a subsequent merger into a broader article when an appropriate one is created. "Savage Dragon" is a major comics franchise with a very large number of spinoff projects from its main title [1] (partial list), which are too extensive to cover in the article on the flagship title. Whether to cover these individually or in umbrella articles is an editorial decision, but wiping out existing coverage because it is woefully incomplete would be a bad choice. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 00:08, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 07:03, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm at a loss as to why you think the fact that The Dragon: Blood & Guts is just one of a multitude of Dragon spinoffs makes it notable. It seems pretty clear that the exact opposite is true. If a notable character appears in only one publication, then it follows that that one publication must be very notable, but if he appears in dozens of publications, then it's highly unlikely that every single one meets notability standards.--NukeofEarl (talk) 14:36, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Long-running, notable character to be sure, but I'm just not finding any significant coverage for this mini-series. I would not be opposed to have this redirect to The Savage Dragon, where the title is listed within the "Collected editions" subsection. Gongshow talk 05:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, I have found multiple RS regarding this series. Valoem ^talk ^contrib 15:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Then why haven't you added them to the article?--NukeofEarl (talk) 16:32, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am willing to accept a merge as a compromise as this article really is not that notable. Dwanyewest (talk) 12:58, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, slakr^\ talk / 10:20, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge selectively to Savage Dragon. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:28, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Savage Dragon or delete. There isn't really anything to merge. It's all plot. I don't understand how being a long-running character impacts on the notability of this article. That sounds like an inherited-notability argument. Superman is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, but we wouldn't make articles on every spinoff project in which he was involved. If people want to obsessively document every storyline and appearance, there's always Wikia, which was created for this purpose. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:01, 4 May 2014 (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.