Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20170401050241/@comment-29644557-20170404045635

Well, evil is a point of view. Even those characters, whose villainy is more subdued, still have a wicked quality to them that makes them the way they are.

For example, these iconic villains:
 * Darth Vader fought back against what he believed was a corrupt and evil force.
 * Light Yagami wanted to rid the world of crime and create a utopia.
 * Judge Claude Frollo wanted to get closer to his God and rid Paris of a group of people he believed endangered its safety and religious freedom.
 * Albert Wesker wanted to evolve humanity to a new age of empowerment and survival.
 * Khan Noonien Singh (Alternate Universe) wanted to save his crew.

Many of these characters have long since passed the MEH due to their actions. But if focus is put onto what they were trying to do and intentions, they could come off as heroes.

Let me put it this way: say I was the admin and you were the user, and I marked one of those pages for deletion with the only reasoning being "not a villain". Despite their evil actions, I could simply say that they "weren't evil enough".

While the pages we have in question here are far less extreme than those cases, should it be up to a few people to decide if a character is evil or not? If they have a page, they must have some villainous merit, right? I believe if a page is well-written with a clear explaination on why the character is evil, then it shouldn't be condemned for not meeting a few peoples' definition of "evil", an admittedly broad concept.

Again, this probably changes nothing and I'm probably in even hotter water now, but it was just what I was thinking as all this was going down.