Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Sword Art Online characters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sword_Art_Online#Proposed_merge_with_List_of_Sword_Art_Online_characters this was just discussed six months ago with the consensus not to merge. Considering the fact that ''Sword Art Online'' is one of the most popular Japanese media series of all time, and that the article's 15 sources are already more than can be found on many a BLP, I find the claim "these characters have no shred of notability" to be difficult to believe. Wikipedia has always hosted lists of characters, such as List of Neighbours characters (2016) (TV series), List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters (video game), and List of Marvel Comics characters: V (comics), so the second part of the nomination isn't really true. Also, you have to keep in mind that since this is a Japanese series for a primarily Japanese audience, |the majority of coverage is probably not in English. A search for just https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%83%88&tbm=nws one of the characters brings up plenty of hits, which can then be sifted through and sorted
— User:Satellizer, 10:33, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIAS (Wikipedia:Systemic bias)