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I was wondering if you could take a stab at pruning this article of most of its ridiculoulsy inflated plot like how you cleaned up List of Wario characters. hbdragon88 (talk) 05:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

It depends if the article is necessary or not. I was thinking about possibly seeing if the different games could be merged to the series article considering only their plots, one or two minor gameplay additions, and reception are different. That would depend on if any development information can be found or if the reception sections can be beefed up by a good amount. In the case of merging, most of the character details would already be covered, so one section providing the primary characters could work out. TTN (talk) 15:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you would merge the games, "any licensed console game that has been published and widely released" is deemed notable enough to have its own article (similar to how albums released be major record labels or films released by major studios are granted their own articles). The Ace Attorney games meet these criteria so why would we merge them?

75.93.9.235 (talk) 01:18, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

It has to do with size and presentation, not notability. One section of gameplay is required for all four of the current games in the series (not counting the spin off). After that, the story, development, and reception sections are what makes them unique from each other. It's possible that development information doesn't exist in great quantity, which only leaves two unique sections. Those two unique sections can fit in the series article if necessary, which would build one strong article instead of a number of weak ones. It really depends if development information can be found or if the reception sections can amass enough relevant information to make them strong enough to stand. TTN (talk) 01:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The articles may not be in the best state at the present, but since they meet the notability guidelines they deserve to have their own articles. WP:POTENTIAL adresses this sort of scenario and advises not to merge articles that "has potential to be successful as a standalone article". This also seems to go against the notability guidelines for Toys & Games. Also, if you're interested in improving the games' reception sections their

Game Rankings pages have a wealth of reviews.

75.93.9.235 (talk) 03:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I would like to hear your opinion on this: Talk:Mysterio#Other_media -- DCincarnate (talk) 18:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi TTN. I was just admiring a lot of the pruning work you had done here and was wondering if you just hadn't gotten around to turning these three articles into proper redirects. I know that the Metroid series has had it taken care of with respect to Mother Brain, as well as others, but I just wanted to know if there was a reason why these weren't redirected yet, or whether I could do it myself. Thanks! 72.165.235.68 (talk) 18:49, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

I see you have been responsible in the past for a number of Blade-related merges. I started following Special:Contributions/Nintendoman01 as a probable sock of repeatedly-blocked IP user Special:Contributions/24.93.236.98. I'm undoing the redirects since they 1) don't appear to be adding any sources, and 2) are done without any consultation to see if consensus has changed. Can you sanity check my actions? I want to make sure that I'm not being overly aggressive and reverting good edits. Thanks! Jclemens (talk) 21:20, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Those pages have no reason to exist, so undoing the edits is perfectly fine. If it were just some new user, a small little note would be fine, but this person is obviously doing this to be purposely disruptive rather than contribute to the project. TTN (talk) 21:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. I'll continue reverting them as disruptive, then. Jclemens (talk) 21:48, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Please go back and correct all of the merge tags you are placing on the pages of various Dragon Ball characters. You are putting an extra "s" in the name. So instead of List of Dragon Ball characters its Lists of Dragon Ball characters. The extra "s" makes the link red. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 18:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, that was the name of the article, and I didn't even notice it. It was moved and deleted after I finished tagging. TTN (talk) 18:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok. No problem then. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 20:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering, there is a page of merged Yu-Gi-Oh characters that's a huge mess, that and there's a debate on the Tekken characters. Do you mind if you could fix those up? Thnx. :3 71.123.97.5 (talk) 23:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

The page/process you're looking for [[WP:SFD]. Alai (talk) 00:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Can you check if List of Canon Sims Characters is the same article as the one deleted after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of non-player characters in The Sims? TTN (talk) 12:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

It isn't. The latter has one-line descriptions of NPCs for Sims, Sims 2 and Sims 2's expansions, along the lines of "Human Maid" or "Gabby the Mime (House Party) - A mime that will arrive at bad parties to try and lighten the mood. He is also known to steal furniture." That is to say, even less relevant than the former. --Kizor 12:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, that's probably going to be an annoying AfD. How about Altaïr and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad? TTN (talk) 12:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Those are the same, though being me, I'd recommend getting others to merge Altaïr to Assassin's Creed before getting rid of it. --Kizor 12:50, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Do you see anything worth merging? Plot and gameplay seem to have pretty much everything down. TTN (talk) 12:57, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Those and development. Good point. Fire away. --Kizor 13:05, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

TTN, you may be looking for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of pre-made characters in The Sims. – sgeureka ^t•c 14:08, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

You seem to have placed a speedy on the article under discussion as G4, with the edit summary of "May as well try it out".As the article does not seem identical to that of two years ago mentioned just above, having had many additional edits since then, I have declined the speedy, and suggest instead another AfD, which will get a community decision--as you and I both know, the outcomes on articles of this nature are unpredictable. I will let someone else make any necessary comment on the edit summary. This is not an admin action, which I would not take on an article on this subject--any editor can decline a speedy.DGG (talk) 23:43, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

And immediately, you seem to be back to what led you to be punished in the first place. Is that really wise? - Norse Am Legend (talk) 18:04, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

It's been about three days, actually. Personally, I think it was a bit unfair to target just me out of all of the parties involved, but the reason for the restriction wasn't for merge discussions and AfDs. It there was any specific reason, it was for edit warring, which I don't plan on doing. TTN (talk) 18:11, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Whatever, all I know is that of the 18 active afd discussion in WP:ANIME, you started 16 of them. The majority of them in under 24 hours. Seems a bit obnoxious to me. Almost like you want to snow everyone under so no proper discussions can occur. Those who can't create, destroy. 208.245.87.2 (talk) 18:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, if I were to begin utilizing more than a few redirects every once and a while, someone would eventually get on my case about how I should be using AfDs instead of "going around the system". It's better to use a system that can actually bind something rather than have them be reverted constantly. There's a large number of articles that need to go through it, so it seems better to get it done quickly than drag it out. TTN (talk) 19:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

...I agree with that guy. The avalanche of AfDs is a bit disruptive. You could've probably brought up the issue of merging/reorganizing a lot of the Legend of Galactic Heroes articles on a relevant talk page instead of putting up an AfD process for each one. Tone it down a bit. - Norse Am Legend (talk) 23:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Those articles are general trashy plot summaries not worth merging. If they had been, I would have used merge tags like with articles actually worth merging. Deletion is the absolute best option in that case. TTN (talk) 00:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd agree with your assessment of all the articles you nominated, but I'd recommend adding the merge=yes tag to the project infobox instead of taking them to AfD. We have an active clean up staff, and while they're a bit preoccupied with importance ratings at the moment, anything that looks dubious is being tagged for merger later, and we will get to it in due course. Doceirias (talk) 01:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Could you take a knife to The Saddle Club - particularly characters. Paul Melville Austin (talk) 08:51, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

You'd probably be better off doing it yourself. The most I can do with the character section is chop half of them off and leave the rest with two sentences. That would probably leave some relevant information missing. TTN (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

In light of your recent activity regarding the initiation of deletion debates after the recent lapse of your editing restriction, I have opened a request for clarification. You can find the request here. Many thanks, Gazimoff 15:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Great. TTN (talk) 17:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Would you object to removing the merge tags at this point?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 21:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead. I'll try again after the video game and anime and manga character categories are fully purged. TTN (talk) 21:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)