Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Batman and Superman

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 keep‎. The keep and disambiguate !votes have effectively the same value in this discussion about a set index page. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 06:56, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Batman and Superman

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This page is simply an uncited list of some works in which the characters appear together, not an actual encyclopedia article about the duo. Di (they-them) (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Science fiction and fantasy, and Comics and animation. Di (they-them) (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
• Keep and tag as a set index. This is functionally a directory of works that a reader might expect to find when searching for the title phrase. Frankly, it is probably also possible to write a substantive and well-sourced article discussing the various scholarly juxtapositions of these characters as archetypes. BD2412 T 20:15, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
• Keep. It's useful as a disambiguation because there are a few titles that use similar formatting and it serves as a landing page for those titles. Since a disambiguation page is necessary, it might as well be a full fledged set index to catch the rest of the works where the characters overlap. Also, as BD mentions, an "actual encyclopedia article about the duo" should be encouraged here. -- Tavix ^(talk) 01:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
• Keep: necessary dab page (or possibly set index), though needs some reformatting. PamD 07:17, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
• Disambiguate - Kazamzam (talk) 18:26, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
• Disambiguate per Kazamzam. Shooterwalker (talk) 01:53, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

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.