Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/The King of Fighters characters

All the pages nominated are now redirects to The King of Fighters, which is what they should be anyway. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 20:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The King of Fighters characters
This is a group nomination for the following fictional characters from The King of Fighters video games:


 * Andy Bogard
 * Billy Kane
 * Blue Mary
 * Bonne Jenet
 * Brian Battler
 * Chang Koehan
 * Chizuru Kagura
 * Choi Bounge
 * Choi Bunge
 * Clark Steel


 * Duck King
 * Goenitz
 * Heidern
 * Iori Yagami
 * Joe Higashi
 * K'
 * K9999
 * Kasumi Todoh
 * Kim Kaphwan
 * Kyo Kusanagi


 * Lin (King of Fighters)
 * Ralf Jones
 * Robert Garcia
 * Rugal Bernstein
 * Saisyu Kusanagi
 * Shermie
 * Shingo Yabuki
 * Sie Kensou
 * Tizoc (Fatal Fury)

These articles were tagged for merger shortly after they were created en masse in 2006. They are not viable candidates for merger because (1) in aggregate they exceed the Limits on quotations guideline for video games, (2) they are mostly unsourced, and (3) the quotes themselves are wholly unremarkable. (A dozen others in this series have previously been deleted individually using PROD and VFD.) — Ningauble 18:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 19:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment: Its past May 19. Should this VFD be closed by now and the articles that were nominated be deleted?(StarWarsFanBoy 01:18, 22 April 2010 (UTC))
 * Delete as nom. (Previous deletions may be found via redlinks at Jeffq's sandbox.) ~ Ningauble 18:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Vote withdrawn. Although the unsourced quotes still need to be removed and what remains is rather juvenile, at least the merged and trimmed article is no longer a huge embarrassment to Wikiquote and is no worse than some other articles on children's entertainments. ~ Ningauble 17:17, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 18:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this should be closed as moot, since all of the actual pages originally nominated for deletion are now mere redirects, and what remains their target page does not raise copyright concerns. I have asked for assistance on WIkipedia in sourcing these. Cheers! BD2412 T 19:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and merged all the pages together. I think there are a handful (just a handful) of quotes actually worth keeping, if they can be properly sourced, and I intend to work that out before the end of this VfD period. BD2412 T 20:02, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Even after the heroic effort of merging them all together and trimming some 30kb of inanities, I am not sure how much of what remains is salvageable. Of the sourced quotes, there are only three that seem marginally better than jejune or banal to me ('A rose blooms...', 'They say you can't buy love...', & 'Strength without justice...'), very marginally, and none that seem quotable. ~ Ningauble 18:47, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * How about this one: "You fought like a star; the guy who plays the corpse, that is". BD2412 T 01:29, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Josh Billings defined the difference between humor and wit as that between the lightning bug and the lightning. (As paraphrased by Mark Twain) Is this electrifying wordplay?
 * I am prepared to be quite surprised by what makes it into Amanda Smirk's The Art of the Putdown: Taunts and Braggadocio from the Golden Age of Video Games (2073). In this and other forms of children's literature (broadly construed) there are indeed brilliant and memorable quotes, but they are generally recognized by being widely repeated among adults (including the original audience at a later time, when sharing them with future generations). ~ Ningauble 13:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought that one was cute. My point is that although most characters have nothing quotable, or no more than a line or two that is quotable, there are enough of them in the collective to justify keeping the single page. Strictly speaking, isn't this VfD about the entries on individual characters, and not the page into which they have been merged, anyway? BD2412 T 23:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete It fails manual of style, it doesn't belong here and its pointless.(StarWarsFanBoy 22:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC))
 * Move to Sandbox I recommend that a user moves this article to their sandbox so that the information isn't lost, but the user himself should find the references in their Sandbox. So basically, delete it so it doesn't cause a detriment to Wikiquote, but put in somewhere accessible so that sources can be found for it. Sound agreeable? Subzerosmokerain 14:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Since those articles are now redirects, there's really nothing left to delete. BD2412 T 01:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)