Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archy McNally


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The result was    Keep. Eluchil404 (talk) 23:56, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Archy McNally

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A fictional character with no real world coverage as per the Manual of Style for writing about fiction. (Note: None of the books he is in have Wikipedia articles yet), failing AfD suggest a redirect to Lawrence Sanders, the author. kelapstick (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Protagonist of 13 best selling novels, and therefore a major character suitable for a separate article. It's a pretty sparse article, because it seems to have avoided telling us what the character is and what he does, in what may be an attempt to avoid NOT PLOT. But that policy says that some discussion of plot is necessary for understanding., Keep and give the author a chance expand.(Or maybe it just isn'tf inished, since it was nominated for deletion only 32 minutes after it had been started. that's not time to develop an article.)  DGG (talk) 23:55, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per DGG. Edward321 (talk) 15:03, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article doesn't even seem to be about the character, but is more about the series of books that the character originates in, all of which are named after the character, and are commonly referred to as the "Archy McNally novels". Whether a rename would be best I don't know. JulesH (talk) 19:33, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, seeing as the character has been written by two different authors, a redirect to one of them doesn't seem particularly helpful. JulesH (talk) 19:34, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


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