Talk:Sidri

Why to keep this article

I'm the original creator of this article, and I'd like to voice why it should be kept. I really don't see any argument for claiming that the article is unencyclopedic. It doesn't fall under any of the categories in Wikipedia: What Wikipedia is not. It's an encyclopedia article; it briefly summarize the key information about a particular topic of note and interest. I don't see any reason for that tagging.

One could make an argument that the article is not important enough, but I think that arguments fails and the article is important. An article on the Sidri would be of interest to comic book readers and X-Men readers in particular. With the success of the three X-Men films (the franchise has grossed over a half a billion dollars in U.S. alone), interest by the general public in X-Men articles may be high as well. Alien races such as the Sidri form a whole category of Wikipedia articles. There are many articles on comic book villains. There are many articles on fictional characters in popular culture media. To delete the Sidri article would be to embrace the deletion of large numbers of these articles. Stories in which the Sidri have appeared were published in Uncanny X-Men, one of the highest circulation comic books in the United States. Furthermore, those stories have been reprinted several times: in Classic X-Men, in the From the Ashes trade paperback, and in the Essential X-Men tradeback. So many copies of those stories exist. Furthermore, another editor believed the Sidri were important enough to create the link back in October 2005 through which this article was established. --JamesAM 05:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I say keep it. The Sidri tie into the origin of Shadowcat and Lockheed's relationship, which is why I mentioned it in Lockheed's article. Nightscream 03:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)