Category talk:Quality Comics characters

CFD Discussion

• Category listed for deletion on March 15, 2005. Consensus unresolved after 20 days. Discussion up to the point of closure follows.

Quality Comics is a long defunct publisher, most of whose characters have been owned by DC Comics for decades. I do think there should be a seperate category for them because of historical interest, but there isn't a need for two. There's Category:Quality Comics superheroes which had 7 items and Category:Quality Comics characters, which was a parent of the former and had one additional item, Blackhawk (comics), which I moved to the later category. Granted, the Blackhawks don't have superpowers, but then neither does Batman and everyone calls him a superhero. Regardless, two cats for this is one too many, and Category:Quality Comics characters doesn't seem to have a reason to exist other than to be an unnecessary parent category. Gamaliel 14:58, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Summary after 2 weeks — no consensus => move to unresolved

• 2 Delete: Kbdank71, MadreBurro
• 3 Keep: Paul A, Gtrmp/Sean Curtin, Gwalla

• Delete. Although I'd prefer to see "characters" stay instead of "superheroes". Nothing to do with superpowers, it's just more inclusive. -Kbdank71 15:23, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The category structure follows existing precedent - see for instance Category:Charlton Comics characters, which likewise contains only a single subcategory and has never been challenged that I know of. Also, like Kbdank71, I think that if one category has to go, it should be Category:Quality Comics superheroes. (Furthermore, I don't think the Blackhawks belong in a "superheroes" category - I don't think Batman is a relevantly similar example, because he fits the superhero mould despite the lack of inherent powers, while the Blackhawks don't fit the superhero mould at all - but I don't know that this is the right forum for that discussion.) --Paul A 03:13, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I don't care if we keep "superheroes" or "characters", but one should go. No useful purpose is served by separating the 8 articles on Quality characters into two different groups. The Blackhawks may be pilots, but they are pilots who fight dinosaurs and team up with Superman, so exculding them from being superheroes seems like hairsplitting. Gamaliel 08:43, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Having "X Comics superheroes" as a subcategory of "X Comics characters" is the de facto standard: it's set up like that for DC, Dell, Fawcett, Image, Milestone, and Valiant (not to mention Charlton) - and I see no advantage in breaking the pattern. --Paul A 08:06, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I see the point about redundancy, but if you're going to do this, do it the other way round and put them all into QCChar and delete QCSH - SoM 09:52, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -Sean Curtin 00:01, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this category, but delete the subcategory. — Gwalla | Talk 01:03, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete fandom rubbish! MadreBurro 17:54, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)