Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GLaDOS

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to Portal (video game). King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GLaDOS[edit]

Article is unsourced an frankly frivolous, basically contains a verbose version of what is already contained at Portal (video game) peppered with unnecessary trivia of a character that appeared only in a single game. Totally unnecessary article. Delete. Rehevkor (talk) 03:28, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Well, I've just used the entry. Trivia is where Wiki scores over Britannia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.0.173.47 (talk) 16:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep That single game was one of the critical and best-selling favorites of 2007, and the character was the most important part of the game. Needs sourcing to be sure, but the character is critical in the Portal experience. Nate • (chatter) 04:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per previous AfD on different casing of name, that's good enough for me to abide by. Nate • (chatter) 08:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete if anything is salvable from the article, Partial Merge with Portal (video game Rotovia (talk) 06:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The current article isn't all that great, but the character has garnered a lot of attention and analysis that I would think justifies the article's existence. Maxa megalon 2000 06:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I would normally say to merge, but in the case of this article there really isn't anything to merge that hasn't already been sufficiently covered in Portal (video game). This article is unnecessary and despite the phenomena around Portal's popularity, this does not in any way warrant a separate article. Trusilver 09:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Portal (video game). Reasons have been covered sufficiently. JuJube (talk) 10:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game related deletions. MrKIA11 (talk) 01:44, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Portal (video game) which already covers the character in sufficient detail including it's notability in the game (eg, a merge is not needed here). While notability for the character is there, a separate article either will go into too much detail (as this one does) or will be small enough to include already. Term is a searchable term, so redirect should stay. --MASEM 01:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Portal (video game).--SkyWalker (talk) 04:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(Extremely) likely search term. Current content's problematic but not particularly objectionable; redirect (without deletion), just like we did with GlaDOS (AfD discussion). —Cryptic 04:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A bit of Googling reveals a number of potential sources ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]), though I'm not sure how reliable they are and whether they provide enough information to justify an entire article. Una Laguna^Talk 06:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- First three are blogs and wouldn't be RS; fourth is sorta mentioning Glados in passing, but not so much about the character in passing, and I can't remember if the fifth is used in Portal or not already, but there's not that much there about Glados itself. I will state that I think the character is notable, but a better encyclopedic treatment is to keep the content within the Portal article, pending any further games with Glados in them that might require more discussion. --MASEM 06:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yeah, they didn't seem reliable, and even if they were there's hardly enough encyclopedic content there to justify an entire article on this one character. Redirect to Portal (video game). Una Laguna^Talk 10:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Portal (video game). Covered quite sufficiently in the aforementioned article, and it's a legitimate search term. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 10:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Portal (video game). I already thought this was a redirect, as GLaDOS is covered very well in the game article. Evidently I was wrong. Recreate the redirect. There's nothing more to say about GLaDOS than is in the Portal article - Portal's storyline is GLaDOS. -- Sabre (talk) 10:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Portal (video game). Per WP:SPINOUT, there's not enough content backed up by reliable, third party sources to warrant spinning out this character into a seperate article. Gazimoff ^Write _Read 14:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.