Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dire Wraith
per .  Oy vey...  .  Obviously the article is not in the best shape, and it should be trimmed WAY down; however, that is not cause for deletion, but improvement.  While I do recognize the argument Devonian Wombat makes, I still think there is enough specific to the Dire Wraiths separate from ROM.  Two main reasons, after the loss of ROM, Marvel still used them for X-Men and others; and they have their own series separate from ROM.  Unfortunately, not everything below from the older ages is available electronically, and requires some old-fashioned paper research, but I'll summarize.First arguement: The trade mark reporting is not at all press release material, and it is entirely secondary.  A reporter in the industry got wind of trade mark filings and decided to report on the happenings over the course of several months.  Before writing these articles, the source of information is US Patent office, not one of the publishers.  As to other sources, I had been trying to slowly accumulate them in order to improve the article, but with an AfD, there is now a 7-day timeframe, so I will unfortunately just be ING them here and ignore any elegant prose additions (for the time being). In-line content will be handled more elegantly in the article, but in this AfD I am going to show the exist, as stated above
— NONE, NONE
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEXIST||WP:NORUSH||WP:REFBOMB (Wikipedia:Notability)