Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magical portrait (Harry Potter)

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 Redirect to Magic (Harry Potter). The Placebo Effect (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Magical portrait (Harry Potter)

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The article does not assert notability - there is no evidence of significant coverage by independent secondary sources. All articles on fictional topics should contain and be based around real world information. Wikipedia is not a plot summary and without any real world information or sources this is just an expanded plot section. WP:FICT states that even "Sub-articles... need real-world information to prove their notability", which this article does not contain. Guest9999 02:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

• merge with Magic (Harry Potter), trimming ruthlessly in the process. --Paularblaster 02:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• merge with Magic (Harry Potter) per Paularblaster . --Brewcrewer 03:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge or delete. Guest9999 is correct that this article does not meet the criteria on its own. If other editors think there is salvageable information that can be merged into other articles, then merging is appropriate. If not, then deleting is the best course of action. Natalie 04:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge: As stated above. No reason for a separate article. - Rjd0060 04:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge the sections about the properties of the portraits into Magic (Harry Potter), and merge the information about the characters of the portraits into Minor Harry Potter characters. -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 05:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge the sourced stuff elsewhere. Nothing in the books explained how the portraits were created or maintained, so the portraits are two-dimensional characters (Heh heh, I'm zipping tonight). Fee Fi Foe Fum 07:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Great one, Fee Fi Foe Fum. I'm sure it won't be hard to get a copy of the information to another page, but we might need to call in a professional so the IPs that like to vandalise it won't know the difference... I should stick to my day job, I guess. -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 08:42, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Just have the redirect protected. Natalie (talk) 22:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
      • Uh... that was also meant to be a joke, Natalie. Getting a professional art copier to move the information... -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 23:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into Magic (Harry Potter) - good information, just needs a better home. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 01:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge - To help prevent recreation. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

• Merge to Magic or to Magical objects. Move the characters to Minor Characters, except the Headmasters' portraits. There's no need of mentioning them, maybe just within the description of portraits themselves. Lord Opeth (talk) 16:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
• Magical objects in Harry Potter is already flagged as too long an article.

Userafw (talk) 07:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

• Merge into Magic (Harry Potter), but leave as much as the article intact as can be sourced. Give it a bit of time on the Magic page, and the citations will come. Hell, I'd do it myself, but I can't put my hands on all seven books at the moment. -- Aaronomus (talk) 08:58, 12 December 2007 (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.