Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of DC Comics characters who can fly

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. J04n(talk page) 00:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

List of DC Comics characters who can fly

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Indiscriminate list. See precedent at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional characters who can fly. bibliomaniac15 20:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

• Delete- per precedent at such discussions as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional characters who can fly, these kinds of articles are unencyclopedic cross-categorizations and should be deleted. Reyk _YO! 20:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
• Delete per above. If this article is kept, should we create "List of DC Comics characters who can't fly"? BurtAlert (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Comment: Just to add on to my delete vote, I do think we should turn this into a category, like Category:DC Comics characters with superhuman strength. However, we'll have to make sure that characters who get put into this category aren't overcategorized. For example, Superman is already in 18 categories. BurtAlert (talk) 03:11, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. —BurtAlert (talk) 22:28, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. —BurtAlert (talk) 22:28, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
• Keep or categorize. Other AfD discussions are not precedent-setting, and editors who say that this is an indiscriminate list are necessarily arguing the curious and essentially indefensible position that flying is unrelated to being a fictional superhero. Jclemens (talk) 23:35, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
• Turn into category, its indiscriminate, but I would suggest turning it into a category "Flying superheros" or something like that, it might be useful, Sadads (talk) 00:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

  There are similar Categories, like Category:DC Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds, so there is precedent, Sadads (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete for the same reasons as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional characters who can fly. It's an unencyclopedic cross categorization in that the topic isn't covered directly by third-party sources. It's original research that synthesizes a bunch of observations of some editors. Reasons for deletion are still sound today. Shooterwalker (talk) 01:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge or return to Category  Interesting concept, not an indiscriminant list.  Not sure where it goes or how to organize it.  Looks like the article was created from a category, no one here seems to be aware of the history of the page.  This is part of a larger structure and needs to be looked at in its entire context.  Most of the Delete positions are based on a flawed WP:OtherStuffExists line.  To the question, "should we create "List of DC Comics characters who can't fly"?" not sure, but perhaps this data should be a column in the existing List of DC characters.  See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 October 28#Category:DC Comics characters who can fly, it looks like there are categories of flying:

  See List_of_comic_book_superpowers#Flight.

  There are quite a few separate methods. Everything from shapeshifting into a creature which can fly, to telekinesis, to magic use, and beyond.

  And then there are all those characters which use an "object" in order to fly, such as a Legion flight belt/ring, a Green Lantern ring, Hawkman's wings (due to Nth metal), a broomstick, a jetpack, repulsor boots/discs, etc. (Noting that there is repeated past consensus to not categorise a character based upon some object they may have, since objects are not "inherent" to a character, as they may be transferred/lost/stolen/destroyed/etc.)

  At best, this should be a list so that the methods/modes for each character may be explained. (See also List of fictional characters who can fly - though it looks like it may need cleanup and expansion.) - jc37 12:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

  See also Category:Lists of DC Comics characters.  I suspect there are people that need to be notified about this AfD including the people involved in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/DC Comics work group.  Unscintillating (talk) 03:09, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete - a far too overcategorized article. Yaksar (let's chat) 02:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete The list is non-encyclopedic, indiscriminate and trivial. As such, it does not meet the criteria of appropriate topics for lists. It also falls into the criteria of what Wikipedia is not (Wikipedia is not a directory.) Jfgslo (talk) 07:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete per Shooterwalker. These characters are already listed on other DC Comics characters lists; there is no need to multiply those lists by random trait. Neelix (talk) 16:38, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

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.