The result was Keep closed without prejudice to opening more controlled AFD's. This is perhaps one of the worst AFD nominations in history. You've mass nominated 140 different articles. How anybody can go through that many articles and make an intelligent educated decision on ANY of them is beyond me. I suspect that most of these articles deserve to be deleted, but there might be a few that are worth keeping. In this mess it is entirely impossible to tell. It is impossible to discuss any of them intelligently to identify which articles in this mess should be kept. If you wish to open AFD's on individual articles, feel free to do so. I am closing this mass AFD without weighing the merits as to whether any or all of the articles deserve to be kept or deleted. If there are any people who use tools and can automate the task of closing the AFD's on the individual articles I would appreciate it. I'll take a look at it later to see if somebody who uses tools took care of these articles...---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 00:55, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
NOTE: Special thanks need to go out to User:Xeno who used a tool to close these. I've usually been a critic of people who rely on tools, but this is twice in the past month I wish I knew more about them! Anyways, Xeno is going to remove the AFD tag from each of the listed articles, but he is NOT going to tag the talk page with an AFDold template as there was not enough individual dialog to discuss warrant it.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 04:07, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note2 I've had several (3) people email me because some of the characters from this list have been speedily deleted and others have been nominated for deletion. Since there have been 3 so far, I'll make a statement here. First, I've looked at most of the ones that have been speedily deleted, and based on what I've seen, they appear to be legitimate speedies. The versions of the one's I checked actually had more information on the versions deleted in 2008 than they do now. If the characters have already gone through an AFD, unless there is something new, then the old AFD is a valid reason to speedy. Second, as for the new AFD's, I explicitly worded the close of this AFD so that new AFD's could be started. I would encourage discussion on the characters, but in a more controlled format. This does not mean creating 140 individual AFDs, to do so would be exceedingly pointy. Create AFD's with 5-10 articles on them so that they can be discussed intelligently. I suspect that most of these articles SHOULD be deleted, but that there are probably a few worth keeping.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 02:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC) moving discussion to talk page[reply]