Deletion of List of minor Marvel Comics characters

Comment: The nomination is based on a mistake.  While the characters on the list are non-notable as the nomination says, that's not actually a problem:- individual items on a list don't have to be notable.  The test of notability that properly applies to this list is whether "Marvel Comics characters" are notable.  (See 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: S.Marshall is close, but not quite right. The test is not whether "Marvel Comics characters" together are notable but whether ''minor'' Marvel Comics characters are notable (that is, covered together as such). Neelix gets it right, this should be included in List of Marvel Universe characters if it can be sourced. Per , which S.Marshall uses as the basis of the argument, "A list topic is considered notable if it has been discussed ''as a group or set'' by independent reliable sources". A conglomeration of non-notable things does not together achieve N unless covered together as a concept/set/group. On the other hand, adding discussion of non-independently notable aspects of a notable topic can be fine. DGG's reference to NOTPLOT missing the mark, too, I think, because the same rationale applies whether this is about fictional characters or any other non-notable subgroup of a notable group. And I agree wtih postdlf concern  about the minor/major distinction (it strikes me as nearly always OR), but a delete or merge to a broader topic fixes this issue, while a keep does not
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: It should be pointed out that all of the guidelines that have been quoted in this AfD have supported deletion; no guidelines have been quoted that support keeping the article. , , , , and  all call for this article to be deleted
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:PRIMARY||WP:CFORK||WP:PLOT||WP:SALAT)