Deletion of Warcraft character articles

Comment: Should a bunch of these be merged together?  Yes.  Is that something for AfD? No.  Nominating 30 articles at a time never works out well.  There's no way to go through and say this one is notable, that one isn't, etc.  Trying to set a precedent by nominating a mass of articles is almost 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)

Comment: Read .  Wikipedia is the place to have bios on notable inanimate characters
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:FICT)

Comment: I'd recommend closing this AfD and '''relisting''' the less notable ones for deletion. Consensus seems to be that we can't categorically delete each of these entries, so far as I can tell. Especially since the relevant deletion arguments are " and ," which certainly can't be covered for every article at once
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:NOR)

Comment: Once Kaustav's comments are gone, I don't see how this discussion could possibly have been considered to be "heading fairly close to a delete consensus".  If these articles are simply deleted, then it opens the door to deleting pretty much every fictional character from wikipedia.  This is a compilation of the major and supporting characters from an extremely notable video game series; the precedent this would set would be chilling.  We might as well say goodbye to Harry_Potter_%28character%29 and Luke_Skywalker, if fictional characters are not worthy of the attention of wikipedia.   is pretty clear - major characters get their own pages, and minor characters should be merged into a list.  And yes, video games fall under those guidelines, unless we want to have a discussion on if video games are an inherently inferior medium.  Even if some of the characters in this AFD are believed to be relatively minor, AFD is NOT the appropriate medium to debate their notability relative to one another in preparation for a merge.  That can be done elsewhere.  If the quality of the articles is a problem, then please, help fix them - but there's no reason to set a precedent of deleting every fictional character from wikipedia
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:FICT)

Comment: per .  I personally think World of Warcraft is crap, but this kind of nomination is silly: deleting every article here would justify cleaning out tens of thousands of other fiction-related articles from TV series, movies, and the like simply because they "weren't notable enough in the real world."  While one has to take notability into account when keeping or deleting articles, this kind of deletionism is not going to get Wikipedia anywhere.  If you want to merge some of the less notable characters, clean out the unverified information so that the articles are short enough to merge, don't ask AfD to do it for you. &mdash
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:FICT)

Comment: Does anyone even read  before taking this route. To clarify Wikipedia guidelines specifically state '''"Major characters and notable minor ones (and places, concepts, etc.) in a work of fiction should be covered within the article on that work of fiction. If the article on the work itself becomes long, then giving such characters an article of their own is good practice (if there is enough content for the character)."''' Its the first point on . Its obvious the person nominating these has no knowledge of Warcraft lore to say Archimonde is not a major character or Illidan or Grom Hellscream Tichondrius, Uther or Kel'Thuzad, Arthas Menethil is so notable to lore there is a town named after him, this is obvious a bad faith nomination, and prescedence is going to lead to people nominating characters from Harry Potter and Da Vinci Code for deletion soon as the main characters there have articles written about them. How about the Sopranos
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:FICT||WP:FICT)