Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie Plum

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 of the debate was keep. Johnleemk | Talk 18:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stephanie Plum

An article about the main character of a series of novels; articles about the series itself have not been written yet. Delete. Neutrality^talk 06:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

• Priority based delete, per nomination. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 06:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. (Bjorn Tipling 07:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC))
• Keep. This is an article about the main character in a series of books [1] and is just as worthy of an article as Encyclopedia Brown or Jack Ryan . Movementarian 07:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Movementarian. Capitalistroadster 08:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Firebug 18:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Stephanie Plum Series. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 20:29, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Movementarian and Capitalistroadster. She's the protagonist in a series by a famous author. I'm not about to force people to write articles about the books first, especially when main characters should be kept instead of merged per WP:FICT anyway. - Mgm|^(talk) 00:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Notable character in notable detective fiction series. Haikupoet 04:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: don't be ridiculous! It's perfectly reasonable to combine an article about a series with that about its eponymous hero(ine). Where were you thinking that an article about the series should be placed? Don't delete, expand! —Phil | Talk 08:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Move per Paolo Liberatore. Stifle 14:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment; from WP:FICT:

Major characters (and places, concepts, etc.) in a work of fiction should be covered within the article on that work of fiction. If the article on the work itself becomes long, then giving major characters an article of their own is good practice.

This giudeline makes perfectly sense to me. That's why I think the article should be about the series (regardless of the article title). Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 16:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

• • but she isnt a character in a work of fiction. shes a character in a series of works of fiction. would you expect sherlock holmes to be covered in articles on every one of his novels or would it make more sense if he was covered with his own article? same here. if there are going to be articles on each of the books (which there should be) then stephanie plum should have her own article. BL kiss the lizard 00:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
    • The consensus not to delete the article seems established. Whether the article should be about the main character or the series belongs to the article talk page, where I have answered to BL's comment. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 11:15, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- JJay 17:46, 12 December 2005 (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.