Talk:The Convict

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Contents 1 Dunder Mifflin 2 WBRE 3 Prison Mike 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Theconvict.jpg

[edit] Dunder Mifflin

I am going through several articles and changing instances of "Dunder-Mifflin" to "Dunder Mifflin" (no hyphen) as it is the proper "spelling" of the company name (see Talk page at Dunder Mifflin). Just leaving a note to say that I've gone through this page. :) Fieryrogue 16:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WBRE

ok in the closing credits its says "New Footage Provided by WBRE-TV" does anyone know what new footage they are talking about? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.98.105.119 (talk) 07:55:37, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prison Mike

My feeling is that we don't actually need two articles on this episode. Whatever is encyclopedic about Prison Mike can be put into this article. I've proposed that Prison Mike be merged into this article. Opinions? --Tony Sidaway 15:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Support. I created the redirect in the first place, and there's not really that much info needed on the guy. Wizardman 16:03, 23 September 2007 (UTC).

No support. He is the funniest character on a hugely popular show. Fans of the office will understand. More info is better than less. It's a good, solid article and well written. No harm here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lindsay123 (talk • contribs) 22:10, 23 September 2007

Support: He's a minor character who only appeared once and is unlikely to appear again. In addition, it seems like a good portion of this article is just rehashing the episode (which should go in the episode's article) and Michael's life (which should go in his article). There's really not a whole lot in it that isn't already in one of those two articles or couldn't easily be put there. I think if Prison Mike shows up again in another episode, then we might consider giving him his own article, but until then he should be merged. Eatcacti 22:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'm happy that there is support for this. --Tony Sidaway 13:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

That's not a consensus, Tony. Tony Sidaway apparently has a history of deleting articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lindsay123 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

First of all, consensus doesn't necessarily mean unanimity, and you were the only one who didn't agree with the merge. Second, the page was not merged because it was badly written or anything like that, but because Prison Mike just isn't notable enough to warrant his own article. Check out the Talk page on List of characters from The Office (US) and note that it has consistently been the consensus that characters who appear in only one episode do not get their own article and usually don't even get a mention as minor characters. Also see WP:FICT for the guidelines on what makes a fiction article notable. Given all that I just don't see how Prison Mike is notable. Eatcacti 20:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I've had enough. Rather than get into an edit war to maintain the redirect, I've listed Prison Mike for deletion:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prison Mike

--Tony Sidaway 05:09, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Had enough of what? Your obsession with deleting chunks of articles? I looked at your edits. Historically, it doesn't look like you create anything. It looks like you just go to random articles and cut out chunks without discussion. Hmm.Lindsay —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 13:10, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Theconvict.jpg

Image:Theconvict.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 12:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)