Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Turnbee

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 merge and redirect to a list of characters for the Onion. Notability independant of the Onion cannot be established, so a merge makes the most sense; as Sh76us noted, as a major character in a notable work, it can certainly stand in a list. David Fuchs ^(talk) 18:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Don Turnbee

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This article asserts no notability through reliable sourcing, and as such just repeats the contents of articles on the onion, and should be deleted. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment -- I'm not 100% convinced myself that this character is worthy of a full article, but if we had an article on recurring characters in the Onion, it would make sense to merge to that. Haikupoet (talk) 17:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Agree with Haikupoet. Several of the articles about Onion characters have the same message, surely if there was one article for all of them, with redirects, that would be acceptable? --Dyefade (talk) 12:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Redirect to The Onion as a viable search term. Google search reveals nada in terms of independent notability outside the "onion universe". If not redirect, then I say delete. Keeper | 76 21:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per notability. Notability seems to be the hardest of the inclusion criteria to satisfy sadly. Marlith ^T/C 02:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Keep As a recurring fictitious character in a major publication, he warrants a page every bit as much as any other fictitious character in any TV show or movie. Sh76us (talk) 03:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• Comment Actually, Sh76us, there is a lot of contention as to whether most fictional characters warrant a page or not. The key is referencing that shows that the specific subject matter, in this case Don Turnbee, warrants an article. I've done a google search (albeit not exhaustive), linked above, and couldn't find anything substantive. I recommend reading, if you haven't, the discussions happening revolving around WP:FICT, including the talk page regarding the inclusion criteria for fictional characters, episodes, villains, heroes... And also if you haven't, please read WP:WAX. Cheers, Keeper | 76 15:43, 11 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.