Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ankhtepot


 * 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 to List of Ravenloft characters. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:03, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Ankhtepot

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Fails the general notability guideline. There are no reliable sources covering this topic which are independent of the manufacturers of Dungeons & Dragons. Simone 17:26, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge into List of Ravenloft characters. BOZ (talk) 18:09, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * transwiki to some fansite that would love this kind of trivia. As for Wikipedia, subject fails WP:GNG no independent coverage and so the options are: merge, redirect, delete. Give this article has only inuniverse content and no secondary sources and that the suggested merge target suffers from the same issues, merging would seem to be an exercise of shoveling the shit from one corner of the stall to another to let it stink there. There is no evidence that this is a likely search term where we know the reader would be looking for this obscure fictional character from a spin off franchise rather than a misspelling of some Egyptian god making the selection of a target for a redirect problematic.  ( and we have been down that path before with supposedly experienced editors restoring in toto the content without providing any third party sources and so a redirect would need to be locked down). Delete seems an appropriate option. --  TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  12:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  17:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)




 * Merge and Redirect  into List of Ravenloft characters. The existence of the deity is verifiable in multiple authoritative sources. Per WP:PRESERVE, merging of verifiable topics is preferable to deletion and WP:ATD-M seems to apply here, Pages about non-notable fictional elements are generally merged into list articles or articles covering the work of fiction in which they appear. This WP article is currently the top hit in a Google in a search for the term Ankhtepot and it is a reasonably unique search term, so a redirect is warranted as well. --Mark viking (talk) 22:48, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hold - I ask that this page be held off from being merged by the closer so that I may do the necessary tasks rather than having to work twice of three times as hard to fix a mergeless redirect that would otherwise be performed. A widescale and large clean up operation is underway as noted by this discussion. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 19:16, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge to List of Ravenloft characters and salt the redirect. As Mark viking and BOZ point out this is worthy of inclusion in the overall list (and therefore a worthwhile redirect), while there is insufficient coverage to establish real-world notability. Arguing "we should delete it because we'd have to protect it if we redirected" is a...rather curious argument. - The Bushranger One ping only 15:03, 16 October 2013 (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.