Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters (3rd nomination)
albeit without prejudice against a merge to Monsters in Dungeons and Dragons, I just think there isn't anything worth merging).  As I said in one of the sundry discussions on these lists, the article is a table of contents of books written by TSR.  Except the two aforementioned sources (that establish that monsters are an important part of D&D), which are not specific to an edition, all the sources are primary in nature.  If this was a list of every D&D monster from 2nd edition that was discussed as a monster from second edition in  sources, it would be a valid list.  If it was supported by sources that talked about the monsters in 2nd edition D&D as a group (even one that talked about how monster design changed over the course of the edition), I could see having a list. However, there are no (reliable) sources that do that, or at least none that anyone has put forward or that I can find. I am sure that if we looked we could find self-published dissertations and oral histories about how monster design changed over the history of D&D by the hundreds (in fact, I just found 2 in a simple google search), but I don't think we will find reliable, independent, secondary, significant sources
— User:Rockphed, 14:16, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:42 (Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything)