Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katran (Myst)

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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. Although the 'deletes' technically outnumber the 'keeps', the arguments towards keeping this particular article outweigh the deletes. Keeper | 76 22:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Katran (Myst)

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This is a character that does not have real world information to establish notability. It is currently covered within relevant articles, and there is no current assertion for improvement. TTN (talk) 20:16, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete, per nom. Goochelaar (talk) 22:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: Notable enough that I looked for (and did not find) this information while researching the backstory for Myst. Verifiable by the Riven game itself and the Myst novels. Katran would otherwise be the only main character in Myst without an article. The character is NOT "currently covered within relevant articles". TTN's solution is to redirect this page to a simple list of characters, which is recursive and non-informative. G. Thomas (talk) 00:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. No real notability, not to mention the article fails WP:V. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 00:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Sesshomaru. ZeroGiga (Contact) 03:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Major characters in a really notable work are notable. Look for proper references. Many -- indeed most -- subjects are covered in some way in different aspects in WP. I wonder if success here will lead to deletion of the other notable characters, and then the article on the family, and then character in Myst. AGF, I hope that is not the intention. Itis only the combination of articles on the series that needs to establish notability--this is more correctly regarded as a subarticle, which does not need to do so, per current guidelines and also per every proposed version of WP:FICTIONDGG (talk) 22:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: per G. Thomas as he is correct that the article is verifiable through the books and Riven the game, and the character is not listed or otherwise covered substantially in other articles. PirateElf (Contact) 03:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - failed WP:V. There's no sources given there. Even if there are, then I'd still opt for delete or redirect to Myst, per no real-world context information. Dekisugi (talk) 09:57, 31 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.