User talk:William97

Speedy deletion of Hannah Fraser
A tag has been placed on Hannah Fraser requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Speedy deletion of The Little Merman
A tag has been placed on The Little Merman The Little Merman リトルマーマン (Ritoru ningyo) is a japanese version of the classic Little Mermaid story, with several of the roles reversed and a fairy tale by the Japanese poet and author Victoria about a young teenage merman willing to give up his life in the sea and his identity as a merman to gain a human soul and the love of a human princess. The tale was first published in 2008 and has been adapted to various media including musical theater and animated film.

Plot
The Little Merman lives in a utopian underwater kingdom with his mother the sea queen; his grandfather; and his five elder brothers, born one year apart. When a merman turns 15, he is allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the brothers become old enough, one of them visits the surface every year. As each of them returns, the Little Merman listens longingly to their descriptions of the surface and of human beings. When the Little Merman's turn comes, he ventures to the surface, sees a large ship called RMS Titanic with a beautiful dancing princess, and falls in love with her from a distance. A great storm causing a Titanic ship to get hitted by an iceberg and sank, and the Little Merman saves the princess from a near-drowning. He delivers her unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here he waits until a young boy from the temple finds him. The princess never sees the Little Merman.

The Little Merman asks his grandfather whether humans can live forever if they do not drown. The grandfather explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than merfolk's 300 years, but that when mermen die they turn to sea foam and cease to exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in Heaven. The Little Merman, longing for the princess and an eternal soul, eventually visits the Sea Warlock, who sells him a potion that gives his legs, in exchange for his tongue (as the Little Merman has the most intoxicating voice in the world). Drinking the potion will make him feel as if a sword is being passed through him, yet when he recovers he will have two beautiful legs, and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, it will constantly feel like he is walking on sharp swords, and his feet will bleed most terribly. In addition, he will only get a soul if the princess loves him and marries him, for then a part of her soul will flow into him. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after she marries another man, the Little Merman will die brokenhearted and disintegrate into sea foam.

The Little Merman drinks the potion and meets the princess, who is attracted to his beauty and grace even though he is mute. Most of all she likes to see him dance, and he dances for her despite his excruciating pain. When the princess' mother orders her daugther to marry the neighboring queen's son, the princess tells the Little Merman she will not, because she does not love the prince. She goes on to say she can only love the young man from the temple, but adds that the Little Merman is beginning to take the temple boy's place in her heart. It turns out that the prince is the temple boy, who had been sent to the temple to be educated. The princess loves him and the wedding is announced.

The princess and prince marry, and the Little Merman's heart breaks. He thinks of all that he has given up and of all the pain he has suffered. He despairs, thinking of the death that awaits him, but before dawn, his brothers bring him a knife that the Sea Warlock has given them in exchange for their big bushy hair. If the Little Merman slays the princess with the knife and lets her blood drip on his feet, he will become a merman again, all his suffering will end and he will live out his full life.

The Little Merman cannot bring himself to kill the sleeping princess lying with her groom and, as dawn breaks, throws himself into the sea. His body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, he feels the warmth of the sun; he has turned into a spirit, a son of the air. The other sons of the air tell him he has become like them because he strove with all his heart to gain an eternal soul. He will earn his own soul by doing good deeds, and he will eventually rise up into the kingdom of Godness.

Speedy deletion nomination of WM!
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