Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Dixon (fictional character)


 * 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 keep for merging. Merge/redirect is clearly preferred, but which/where to be worked out by editors in the usual venue, as no consensus is apparent here. GRBerry 14:33, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Ben Dixon (fictional character)

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The article is about a minor(?) Robotech character, and is written in an in-universe manner. Withdraw nomination per Quasirandom's suggestion. Clarityfiend 19:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions.   —Quasirandom 22:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletions.   —Quasirandom 22:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, unless there is no viable merge target (which given the, uh, complicated nature of all things Robotech/Macross, is entirely possible), in which case redirect. --Gwern (contribs) 22:44 22 October 2007 (GMT)
 * I see what you mean about no viable merge target: there's a category for characters, rather than a list of characters article, and most of the character articles are very brief. Someone with time and energy could fruitfully merge most (if not all) of them and create a viable subpage to Robotech, but until then ... oy. —Quasirandom 00:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think we do subpages these days; they seem to be deprecated. The usual thing seems to be a "List of...". --Gwern (contribs) 01:03 23 October 2007 (GMT)
 * Exactly. Unless the character has notablity outside the work of fiction, which as far as I can tell, none of these do. —Quasirandom 14:34, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: What I would like to see is, rather than delete this single character of all the ones in the category, that they all be tagged as merge into List of Robotech characters and the relevant WikiProject notified. If nothing is done in, say, a couple months, then conclude the articles aren't important enough to bother with and then mass AfD the whole lot of them. —Quasirandom 23:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I should probably make this an explicit rather than implicit request: is the nominator willing to withdraw the AfD to allow this proposal to happen? I'm willing to tag-n-notify, but not if this article is going to be deleted anyway. —Quasirandom 19:28, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with that. Tag away. Clarityfiend 22:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've tagged everything in the category for merging and notified the project. Let's see if someone cares enough to save them. If that doesn't work, I'd support a mass deletion of all but Macross operators, which actually aserts out-of-universe notability (though without citations yet). Until then, keep. —Quasirandom 01:08, 25 October 2007 (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.