Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Sullivan

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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 delete. Wizardman 17:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Colin Sullivan

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The article provides no information or reason (and I do not believe that there is any) that this character is more notable than any of the other leading three in the film The Departed, in fact Matt Damon received no official accolades for his performance that I can find in the awards section of the film article. The accolades go to di Caprio, Nicholson and Wahlberg (who got an oscar nom). There is no extra information in this article that cannot be in the film article itself, as the biography of Sullivan is essentially the plot (particularly his early life). Essentially, there is no reason that I can see (either through Damon, the character or the film) that gives this character notability. Furthermore it suffers from OR but this is a lesser point. I respectfully move for a merge/deletion and redirect to the film article. SGGH speak! 19:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Merge and DeleteRedirect There is no non-OR material in the article that is not already in or cannot be merged into the main article, The Departed. -Seidenstud (talk) 19:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  • More specifically, see WP:MAD for an explanation that's actually understandable. ~ mazca talk 22:40, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect - I agree fully that nothing in this article is worth separating from the main article on The Departed - as a character that appears in that film and nothing else, by nature all the information about him came from the film. ~ mazca talk 22:40, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 02:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. The lack of citations from reliable sources indicates to me that the article fails to comply with the verifiability policy. Stifle (talk) 20:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect. If the character had appeared in more than one film I might say keep. I think the character is notable, but it seems that the article The Departed covers much of this already. I don't think the entire article should be merged, but I think more information in the Cast section would be okay, similar to the cast section in the Iron Man (film) article. --Pixelface (talk) 14:53, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Contains no real world information. Fails notability. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


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