Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED mobile weapons (2nd nomination)
The sources cited address in detail ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'', but not the Mobile Suits themselves, which when mentioned are mostly passing mentions and/or in-universe. There are no reliable #Notability|third-party sources independent of the subject to presume |notability. I do not see evidence that that they meet the |general notability guideline or that there are reliable sources for the individual weapons to presume that they should have a stand-alone list, as there are no sources that provide reception, significance or real-world perspective. Even if one tries to ignore the independent of the subject problem with the sources mentioned by Folken de Fanel, for notability purposes all the ''Newtype USA'' sources count as only one source because they are from the same publisher. The books cited in Amazon Japan are not even direct mentions and in no way show notability for the fictional weapons, as they are mostly tertiary sources that compile information but do not give objective evidence of notability or they are for the whole franchise. The only ones that I see as solid evidence for notability purposes are Anime News Network and T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews, and both of them do not treat the fictional weapons as a subject, but as part of the plot of the series. In fact, checking the reception section and the sources, they merely praises the overall mechanical design in the series, nothing to presume that the Mobile Suits are notable on their own or that it justifies to have a stand-alone list about them.Furthermore, the sources only serve to establish a presumption that a subject is suitable for inclusion. As mentioned before, the reception section is not even about the mobile suits and should be covered in the series articles. The rest of the content of the article is a |plot-only description of a fictional work taken with |original research by synthesis at best, so the article also falls into WP:!|what Wikipedia is not and does not meet the criteria of |appropriate topics for lists. Knowing the mobile weapons in detail (even the notable ones plot-wise) is not necessary to understand the plot of the series. Whatever is needed to understand about them is already covered in the article mobile weapons. Per the criteria of |avoiding unnecessary splits, I do not think that this is a valid article split since it doesn't meet neither the general notability criterion nor any specific notability criteria and |notability is not inherited. The article is an unjustified |content fork more related to OTDIR|a complete exposition of all possible details, so I don't see a valid reason to keep the article
— User:Jfgslo, 13:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:N||WP:GNG||WP:PLOT||WP:SYN||WP:SALAT||WP:AVOIDSPLIT||WP:ITSA||WP:CFORK||WP:NOTDIR (Wikipedia:Verifiability)