Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20151229000821/@comment-27560932-20151229003530

I'd be fairly mindful of what you mark for deletion; I respect your intentions (as well as the fact that you provide counterarguments; God knows there aren't enough proper justifications for some of the more outlandish edits in this wiki) but often times the characters you've marked have either been discussed before and approved to stay (earlier logs in the history and occasionally talk page will show this) or are provided as actual exceptions. The rules themselves, sooner or later demand a re-write because I think certain sections haven't been touched since 2011 or so.

In the case you'll likely contest right now (the Punisher) I can challenge; our policies speak against anti-heroes who are more "heroic" than "anti-heroic" because people often fail to differentiate between these kinds of characters and "flawed" heroes. An "anti-hero" can still count if they show themselves to have deliberately immoral tendencies; the Punisher fits that description more than aptly. Secondly, by the terms of the setting, the Punisher is only a "hero" because the rest of the setting he's in is often nihilistically cynical and dark. There is no true good, and by the standards of the rest of the Marvel setting, the Punisher is needlessly brutal. He's not definitively on the side of the law, either, because while he fights crime, the Punisher will happily engage in behavior termed illegal, among them, as listed by the page, " murder, kidnapping, torture, coercion, extortion, and other illegal methods".