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The result was procedural keep This is one of several nominations made by an editor who has been previously cautioned about opening merge proposals before making AfDs for character pages. (26 nominations in all.) This is something that falls under the banner of cleanup rather than outright deletion, so this is going to be best handled by a merge discussion at
Talk:List_of_American_Dad!_characters#Merger_proposal. This is going to be a lump close, so this same message will also appear on the other pages.
Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
American Dad!#Characters or the section's mirror
List of American Dad! characters, as there is no independent notability separate from
American Dad!. There is no specific guideline for fictional characters, so the
WP:GNG applies. There may be some collateral help from
WP:NBOOK which has a section on derivative articles which says: While a book may be notable, it is not normally advisable to have a separate article on a character or thing from the book, and it is often the case that despite the book being manifestly notable, a derivative article from it is not. Exceptions do exist, especially in the case of very famous books. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" clearly warrants a 'subarticle' on its protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. --
Bejnar (
talk) 05:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was procedural keep This is one of several nominations made by an editor who has been previously cautioned about opening merge proposals before making AfDs for character pages. (26 nominations in all.) This is something that falls under the banner of cleanup rather than outright deletion, so this is going to be best handled by a merge discussion at
Talk:List_of_American_Dad!_characters#Merger_proposal. This is going to be a lump close, so this same message will also appear on the other pages.
Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
American Dad!#Characters or the section's mirror
List of American Dad! characters, as there is no independent notability separate from
American Dad!. There is no specific guideline for fictional characters, so the
WP:GNG applies. There may be some collateral help from
WP:NBOOK which has a section on derivative articles which says: While a book may be notable, it is not normally advisable to have a separate article on a character or thing from the book, and it is often the case that despite the book being manifestly notable, a derivative article from it is not. Exceptions do exist, especially in the case of very famous books. For example, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" clearly warrants a 'subarticle' on its protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. --
Bejnar (
talk) 05:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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