Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kari Taalasmaa

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 See rationale and suggestions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seppo Taalasmaa. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 21:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kari Taalasmaa

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Article about a fictional character of a soap opera. It has no real world information. It fails guidelines for WP:SOAPS. I prodded the article for deletion but my edit was reverted as "minor edit" without any explanation. Magioladitis (talk) 16:16, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions. —Magioladitis (talk) 21:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
• NOTE - The nom is attempting to delete every character article of the popular Finnish TV show Salatut elämät.--Oakshade (talk) 03:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - Consensus has long since decided fictional character articles, including in soap operas, can be included. Major character in long running national soap opera. WikiProject Soap Operas (WP:SOAPS) is not a notability guideline, but a project improvement page and in no manner mandates article deletions. If you feel the article should be improved, a wiki-improvement tag is more appropriate, not article deletion. --Oakshade (talk) 03:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete unless multiple reliable secondary sources can be found to demonstrate notability and to make the article verifiable. Jakew (talk) 19:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
• keep or Merge or redirect, depending on the importance of the character, but since a character might be a search term, the one thing that should not be done is delete. Spin out for major characters is still acceptable-- WP:SOAPS is only a project. I would like to see evidence first that someone with access to Finnish language sources has at least looked for them. DGG (talk) 00:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per my previous comment. Eusebeus (talk) 13:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, there is no real world information policy. Failing a WikiProject guideline is not a reason for deletion. Those are decided upon members of that particular WikiProject. --Pixelface (talk) 15:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. The character has appeared on one of the most popular TV series of Finland for about six years as one of the main characters. ,,n (talk) 03:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

  Comment What about expaning the List of characters article then by merging all the individual articles there by deleting the plot summaries? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fabrictramp (talk) 23:19, 10 May 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.