Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Dietrich


 * 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   no consensus. v/r - TP 22:41, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Arthur Dietrich

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Delete - there are not reliable sources that offer significant coverage of this fictional character. There are certainly sources that mention the character and that establish the existence of the character but existence is not notability. Article amounts to a description of the character's appearance in the television series, a glorified plot description in violation of WP:PLOT. PROD removed with no explanation and link to an obituary for the actor who played the character added, but the obituary is of course about the actor and not the character. Harley Hudson (talk) 12:44, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:34, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:35, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep A straightforward Google Books search shows that this character has been referenced by multiple independent sources--sometimes just in an encyclopedia, other times commenting more extensively on the character. The GNG is met, the article needs to be improved to incorporate such sources. Jclemens (talk) 20:16, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - lacks significant coverage independent of the actor who played the character. --Anthem 16:17, 13 June 2011 (UTC) - Please discount any comments by Anthem of Joy, he's a sock puppet. Mathewignash (talk) 18:55, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note Anthem of joy has been indef blocked as a sockpuppet of Claritas . --Tothwolf (talk) 03:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - GNG is met.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:41, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: The fictional character does not meet general notability guideline and the article is mostly a plot-only description of a fictional work. The article only provides one reference to a primary source, an interview with the actor that portrayed the character, Steve Landesberg, but doesn't show that the rest of content was no extracted with original research by synthesis. Furthermore, a search engine test does not show evidence that the fictional character is covered in reliable third-party sources. All that shows up are unreliable sources or trivial mentions in tertiary sources, but there is no evidence that secondary sources make analytic or evaluative claims for the fictional character, so there is no objective evidence of notability. With no evidence of presumed notability and since the article falls into what Wikipedia is not because it doesn't provide reception and significance for the fictional character, I don't see a good reason to keep the article around. Jfgslo (talk) 01:04, 16 June 2011 (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.