Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clark Kent

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 Speedy keep. Snowball keep. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 04:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clark Kent

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This page should be deleted because the Superman page already exists and there really should not be an article for an alter ego of a character. Gman124 ^talk 00:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I would like to add that most of the stuff is also not referenced, the smallville section really belongs in the Smallville TV series page, and the identy isuue stuff could be added to the superman page. Superman and Clark Kent are the same person. is mostly composed of some editors' personal unverifiable reflection on "Who is the real personality?" and It's all a plot summary--Gman124 ^talk 00:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Clark Kent is notable enough on his own to have a lot of analysis and media on him and him alone. Wrad (talk) 00:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep Bad faith nom. Clearly passes notability for fiction Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 00:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy keep Easily passes notability for fiction, separately from Superman himself. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
  • how is he separate from superman? it's the same person. --Gman124 ^talk 01:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
    • What I mean is, he's notable in and out of the Superman character. There's sufficient notability for each persona to have its own page. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 02:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Clear Keep after filtering out Smallville to remove most of the TV show discussion, there's still significant coverage of the character. The character also is discussed in scholarly research amid some false positives. _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 01:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment I cannot deny the fact that the Smallville section is indeed way too long. I wanna vote keep, but first I got one question to ask, how is Clark any more notable than other superhero's human personalities? (Well that's what I call alter ego because they act differently when they're not in their superhero uniform and fighting villains than they are when they are using their powers to fight villains you know what I mean. Oh and by "they" I mean Superheroes in general, like Batman or something like that.) TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 01:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - he must be one of the most famous (and well studied?) characters but, as I said in my opposing the merge, he has also appeared as purely Clark Kent (see e,g, this) and there are stories which deal with a non-super man, just ordinary Clark Kent (e.e. Superman: Last Son of Earth). That isn't to say it doesn't need work, but this isn't the solution. (Emperor (talk) 02:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC))
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletion discussions. —Emperor (talk) 02:24, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. A famous alter-ego of Superman, clearly passes WP:FICT on his own. Clean-up the article and add more sources, though. Nsk92 (talk) 03:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, same dude of course, but articles have differing contents and from different viewpoints. Besides, the Superman article is long enough already. JIP | Talk 03:55, 19 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.