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| I would like to open this matter to further discussion. The criteria for what constitutes a 'major' vs a 'minor' book or character are necessarily vague. | I would like to open this matter to further discussion. The criteria for what constitutes a 'major' vs a 'minor' book or character are necessarily vague. | ||
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| I mostly agree with your criteria above, but I think that we could merge trivial characters from major books into a list as well. Why not? What harm would it do to have a list that mentions Neville's toad, Trevor? ] 20:18, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC) | |||
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Attempted consensus
Sometimes, a group of similar or related articles is nominated for deletion over a short period of time. In cases like this, it seems prudent to have one centralized discussion about the entire group, rather than repeating arguments over each member thereof. This is an attempt to forum consensus on one such groups of articles.
Description
Characters from books, TV series, movies and/or computer games are often nominated for deletion as 'fancruft', and reader reactions vary between keep, delete and merge.
A possible distinction (taken from WP:WIWO) would be the following. I'm using the term 'book' here for no particular reason other than brevity; the same would apply to games, movies etc.
- Major characters from major books deserve their own article (e.g. Harry Potter).
- Minor characters from major books should be merged into a list for easy accessibility, and because there isn't that much to say about them (e.g. Lionel Hutz).
- Trivial characters from major books should be deleted as unencyclopedic (e.g. that guy that appears in scene seventeen for twenty seconds, then dies).
- Major characters from minor books should be merged into the main article for the book for easy accessibility (e.g. Dua from The Gods Themselves).
- Minor or trivial characters from minor books should be deleted as unencyclopedic (obviously it's hard to think of a suitable example).
I would like to open this matter to further discussion. The criteria for what constitutes a 'major' vs a 'minor' book or character are necessarily vague.
Merge
I mostly agree with your criteria above, but I think that we could merge trivial characters from major books into a list as well. Why not? What harm would it do to have a list that mentions Neville's toad, Trevor? DaveTheRed 20:18, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)