Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Pokémon (461–480)
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
— User:Sesu, 11:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)