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This is a fairly simple issue - the article that's been created so far is a profile of the character as can be seen from the episodes, which isn't considered appropriate material in spite of the "not paper" (an article cannot be written off just becuase it would be a waste of paper in a conventional encycolpedia) policy. It would be preferable to have a description of the character as seen by the real world - even if that's as a stock charcter - as described in the policies linked to. The "biographical" material that could remain would especially have to lose stuff such as that he "enjoys late night runs on the beach (sometimes while being chased by the police)", which only happened once and doesn't tell us about him, and the nickname, which was also only used once and not as an actual form of address. Billwilson5060 ( talk) 11:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
... See Jon Cryer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.136.58 ( talk) 19:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Isn't Alan not an actual Doctor? It's being pointed out several times in different episodes. So I guess we should remove the "Dr." from the title of this article. -- 141.84.28.22 ( talk) 13:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
He is a doctor. He is not a medical doctor, but he is a doctor in the same sense that dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists are also doctors. MD is only one type of a doctor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.61.213 ( talk) 00:47, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
For the purpose of {{ Infobox character}}, an alias is not something that is used once or twice, it needs to be significant or we could end up with a whole list of them in the infobox, which is just crufty and not encyclopaedic. Alan using "Charlie" or "Matthew Brodrick" [sic] once or twice in 185 episodes (as of now) just doesn't cut it as an alias. If he used the names consistently, ie people knew him by that name, then that would count as an alias, but he is known only as "Alan Harper". He's not generally known as "Charlie", so claiming it as an alias is not appropriate. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 07:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
What happened to Zippy's Chiropractic?? His office???-- Nithinthilak ( talk) 08:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Do we really need to list Alan's family tree? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.51.209.133 ( talk) 17:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not going to finish today. So please do not think I just left it a huge mess. In Correct ( talk) 23:15, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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This is a fairly simple issue - the article that's been created so far is a profile of the character as can be seen from the episodes, which isn't considered appropriate material in spite of the "not paper" (an article cannot be written off just becuase it would be a waste of paper in a conventional encycolpedia) policy. It would be preferable to have a description of the character as seen by the real world - even if that's as a stock charcter - as described in the policies linked to. The "biographical" material that could remain would especially have to lose stuff such as that he "enjoys late night runs on the beach (sometimes while being chased by the police)", which only happened once and doesn't tell us about him, and the nickname, which was also only used once and not as an actual form of address. Billwilson5060 ( talk) 11:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
... See Jon Cryer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.136.58 ( talk) 19:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Isn't Alan not an actual Doctor? It's being pointed out several times in different episodes. So I guess we should remove the "Dr." from the title of this article. -- 141.84.28.22 ( talk) 13:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
He is a doctor. He is not a medical doctor, but he is a doctor in the same sense that dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists are also doctors. MD is only one type of a doctor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.61.213 ( talk) 00:47, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
For the purpose of {{ Infobox character}}, an alias is not something that is used once or twice, it needs to be significant or we could end up with a whole list of them in the infobox, which is just crufty and not encyclopaedic. Alan using "Charlie" or "Matthew Brodrick" [sic] once or twice in 185 episodes (as of now) just doesn't cut it as an alias. If he used the names consistently, ie people knew him by that name, then that would count as an alias, but he is known only as "Alan Harper". He's not generally known as "Charlie", so claiming it as an alias is not appropriate. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 07:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
What happened to Zippy's Chiropractic?? His office???-- Nithinthilak ( talk) 08:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Do we really need to list Alan's family tree? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.51.209.133 ( talk) 17:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not going to finish today. So please do not think I just left it a huge mess. In Correct ( talk) 23:15, 26 January 2016 (UTC)