Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garth Marenghi

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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 keep. The article has been very substantially improved since being brought to AfD. It now has what appear to be seven WP:V, WP:RS cites as opposed to none at the beginning of the AfD. The argument of the character predating the Darkplace TV show by several years, including winning awards during this period, indicates notability independent of that TV show and contraindicates a merge to that article. Pigman☿ 19:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Garth Marenghi

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This is a character that does not have real world information to establish notability. It is currently covered within the main article, and there is no current assertion for improvement. TTN (talk) 00:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

  • comment I quickly added a few refs, whether they are enough is a matter for debate. RMHED (talk) 01:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions. —Quasirandom (talk) 02:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Doc Strange (talk) 14:31, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep as article has real world notability and verifiability. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 17:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • weak Keep the newspaper links prove notability. Merging it with Matthew Holness would be wrong as the character was co-created by Ayoade, and merging it with Darkplace misses the fact that the character provably pre-dates Darkplace by several years. So since it's got nowhere to go, I think keep it as is for now.The Zig (talk) 20:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • weak merge - whilst the character is notable, the nominator is correct that there is very little info here. However, not entirely sure where the best place to merge to is, as per The Zig above. Oli Filth(talk) 20:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, award-winning comedy character with plenty of coverage.--Nydas(Talk) 23:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. I would suggest a merge except the information is already well-covered, and this is superfluous. No claims of real-world significance are made and hence this does not merit its own article. Wikipedia is not a fansite. Eusebeus (talk) 20:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Redundant and not notable. The Darkplace article contains all the info we need. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.255.67.198 (talk) 03:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Except that the act precedes Darkplace and has won a major comedy award. If this were an anime character, there'd be no question about its notability.--Nydas(Talk) 14:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.