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345:- Hopeless fancruft. The only source is, as Tarc says, a toy pricing guide. The article is full of in-universe plot summary and when you read stuff like "Does this make him a coward? Perhaps, but when he can not honorably avoid fighting he does his best to crush his fears, lest he be found out." you realize that it's also original research. This highlights why "sourcing" an article to the work of fiction itself is unacceptable; you're actually sourcing it to 319:
policy. Only in cases where the character is completely incidental should it be deleted. This is how things have worked in other areas relating to fictional characters. I don't see why Transformers are such an exception that the content of the articles shouldn't be preserved in a merged character
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When dealing with non-notable character articles, it is always preferable to look for a list or to create one to merge the article into, or merge/redirect them to the main article instead of outright deletion and is in keeping with the
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for fictional characters. The usual plan for such non-notable characters is to redirect/merge to a minor characters list but none appears to exist.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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No secondary sources. Come on! This shit is making Knowledge (XXG) look like a load of cunting bollocks.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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of the work of fiction, and that is not what an encyclopedia is about.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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to a G1 Transformers character list as a comic only character. —
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Reyk is right. Nothing really needs to be said beyond
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