Deletion of List of Pokémon (461–480)

Comment: While each individual Pokémon may not be whole, the entire collection of them as a whole are notable enough to warrant an article listing them, however, to put the short description of all 493 of them into a single page would result in an article that you'd probably have to PgDn about 50 times to get to the end. That was the reasoning behind splitting them into groups of twenty and creating an article for each of thos groups. To nominate one means you must nominate all of them. But, yes they do have notability, even if a particular group of twenty don't seem to be as notable as others. (Bloody hell, I hate dealing with deletionists who always go by the book... Haven't they ever heard of just |ignoring all the rules
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)

Comment: And I'm going to fire off a whole accusation that this entire fiasco is a case of  on the part of
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)

Comment: I've been quietly doubting the need for these lists for a while. A few Pokémon are significant enough for their own articles, but what makes the rest of them |notable enough to be covered on Wikipedia? I pose this scenario: if a fighting game series had, say, 50 different characters, would we dedicate multiple paragraphs to each and every one of them? I can't imagine each one would carry notability in their own right, so the answer would be "no", but that's what we're doing with Pokémon, except there aren't only 50 of them, ''there's nearly ten times that amount''!Taking 20 non-notable characters and tossing them into a list together doesn't somehow make the list notable. And even if a list does have ''some'' notable Pokémon on it, that doesn't justify including the other, non-notable ones. Plus most of the lists are a mess in desperate need of copyediting, and they have been left that way for quite some time. Colonel Warden, I'm not sure if you're nominating this list on behalf of the other 24 lists or if there's something about this one specifically, but I say we should remove them all and just leave the few individual species articles and the basic List of Pokémon page. And Zxcvbnm, you are correct that Pokémon is a notable series, which is why we have Pokémon, Pokémon (anime), Pokémon (video game series), Pokémon (manga), etc. Just because the series as a whole is notable doesn't mean every aspect of it is notable
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)